Found 603 collections.

Craig Miller (1950-1994) was an American lighting designer who worked in dance, opera, theater, and musical performances. The Craig Miller designs and papers date from 1969 to 1994 and document Miller's short but prolific career through designs and documents relating to productions on which Miller worked; his early work; correspondence; business files, and photographs. less

Mura Dehn (1905-1987) was a dancer and filmmaker who documented African-American social jazz dancing from the 1930s to 1950s at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York. The collection consists mostly of her film works, accompanied with photographs; address books, assorted material and an artifact. less

Pina Bausch (1940-2009) was a German choreographer and dancer known for her use of the expressionistic Tanztheater style, which combined elements of drama and modern dance. The Pina Bausch collection documents the later portion of her career, dating from 1980 to 1999, through programs, an interview, and files on an artist's residency and related United States tour. less

Hyla Roberts (1917-2001) was an American modern dancer who performed with noted modern dance choreographer Doris Humphrey from 1930 to 1934. The Hyla Roberts collection documents Roberts's brief dance career through correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs. less

Murray Spalding (1944-2010) was an American choreographer, dancer, and teacher most known for her spiritually evocative Mandala dance series. The Murray Spalding papers date from about 1953 to 2011 and outline her career through performance production files; performance and publicity photographs; choreographic notebooks; scrapbooks; clippings; dance company records, and teaching files. less

The Arnold Eagle dance photograph collection documents national and international ballet companies from 1934 through 1965. Formats include photographic prints, black and white negatives, color transparencies, and contact sheets. There are also three scrapbooks of contact sheets of the Royal Danish Ballet. Dance companies well represented in the collection are the Royal Danish Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet Company, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. less

Joan Duddy (1937-2015) was an American dance administrator and curator who was influential in the New York City downtown dance scene from the 1980s through the 2000s. The Joan Duddy collection documents the later portion of her career, primarily dating from about 1980 to 2014, through project plans; published reviews; meeting notes; publicity items; contracts; correspondence; research materials; and video recordings of performances. less

Dancing in the Streets is a New York City community-based dance organization dedicated to providing free public dance performances and fostering the careers of emerging and established choreographers and dancers. The Dancing in the Streets records date from 1983 to 2015, tracing the history of the organization through board of directors records; performance production files; programming files; photographs of performance events; marketing materials; and newspaper and magazine clippings. less

Judith Dunn (1933-1983) was an avant-garde American dancer and choreographer. The Judith Dunn collection dates from 1963 to 1978 and documents her work with the Judith Dunn/Bill Dixon Company, and to some extent, her work as a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater. The collection primarily contains film and video recordings, with a small amount of files. less

Marjorie Gamso (1944-2011) was a choreographer, dancer, and founder of the Energy Crisis dance group. The collection, dated from 1969 to 2015, primarily documents her career in New York City from 1971 until her death via correspondence, notes, photographs, press releases, and research materials. less

Anita Feldman is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer best known for her innovative work in Tap and close collaborations with composers. The Anita Feldman Tap collection documents her professional life, including the dance company she founded, through files relating to performances and artist residencies; Feldman's original choreography; her student years and early work; the Tap Dance Instrument, a percussion instrument she co-invented; her teaching career; articles and a book written by Feldman; performance and publicity photographs; clippings of performance reviews; administrative records; and recordings of performances, music, and interviews. less

The Jane Goldberg Changing Times Tap Dance Company collection, dating from 1943 through 2018, traces the professional history of founder Jane Goldberg and the initiatives undertaken by the Changing Times Tap Dance Company to promote and preserve tap dance history. The collection holds the Company's administrative files, promotional and publicity materials, photographs, correspondence, writings about tap by Goldberg, and extensive audio and moving image recordings of rehearsals, performances, and interviews. less

Alfredo Valente (1899-1973) was an Italian-born American photographer. Valente's trademark style was his portraits of costumed performers which used artistic camera angles and dramatic lighting. The Alfredo Valente negatives are comprised primarily of black and white negatives and some proofs created between 1934 through 1958. The majority of photographs are of American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Other companies represented are Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, Ballet for America, Ballet International, Jooss Ballet, and notable individual dancers such as La Argentinita, Katherine Dunham, and Ruth St. Denis. less

W. H. (Wilbur Hulin) Stephan (1921-1959) was a Ohio born photographer who specialized in dance. The W. H. Stephan photographs date from 1949 to 1959 and are comprised of black and white negatives and photographic prints of numerous ballet and modern dance companies throughout New York City and the greater tri-state region. The majority of the collection documents the productions and dancers of well-known companies, chiefly American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, New York City Ballet, and Slavenska-Franklin Ballet. The photographs captured the New York modern dance scene and its well-known figures including Merce Cunningham, Myra Kinch, Pearl Lang, Sophie Maslow, and Paul Taylor. less

The Barbara Newman dance interviews, dating from 1975 to 2010, were conducted by Barbara Newman in preparation for her ballet publications: Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing(1982, revised edition 1992), Never Far From Dancing (Part II of Striking a Balance, 2014), Grace Under Pressure: Passing Dance Through Time(2003), and Antoinette Sibley: Reflections of a Ballerina (1986). The collection holds paper transcripts and audio tapes. less

The Sonia Arova collection, dating from 1946 to 2013, documents her career as a ballerina and artistic director of the San Diego Ballet and the Alabama Ballet. The collection holds printed matter, photographs, correspondence, audio and video media originals. less

The Nancy Reynolds collection, dating from the 1980s to 2014 (bulk dates 1990s), primarily document the George Balanchine Foundation's commitment to continuing Balanchine's legacy as well as the day-to-day operations of this non-profit foundation. Nancy Reynolds is the director of the Foundation and is considered a leading authority on George Balanchine. The collection also contains files on the publication No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century co-written with Malcolm McCormick. less

Don Redlich (born in 1929) is a dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue. The Don Redlich papers, dating from 1893 to 2019 (the bulk dates from the 1940s onward), document Redlich's life and career through written descriptions and videos from The Legacy of Hanya Holm: Don Redlich Remembers project; manuscripts and interviews for an unpublished memoir; Don Redlich Dance Company files; Dance Notation Bureau files; Redlich's teaching files; files devoted to Redlich's teachers; letters; school files; photographs; scrapbooks; programs and reviews; posters; datebooks; address books; drawings; family history papers; and audio and moving image recordings, which hold many performances by the Don Redlich Dance Company. The papers also contain a small set of photographs and letters from the collection of the dance critic Arthur Todd. less

Maxine Glorsky is a dance production stage manager, and the co-founder of the Technical Assistance Group Foundation (TAG), a dance service organization which presented performances of small and medium-sized dance companies. She was also the stage manager for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company for many years. Her papers, dating from 1971 to 2001, document the activities of TAG and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. less

Mary Wigman (1886-1973) was a German dancer, dance instructor, and choreographer notable for her work in expressionist dance. Her many students included Yvonne Georgi, Hanya Holm, Harald Kreutzberg, Gret Palucca, Margarethe Wallmann, Inge Weiss, and Meta Vidmar. Nancy Brock was also a student of Wigman's from 1953 to 1954, and they maintained a correspondence until Wigman's death. This collection documents the relationship between Wigman and Brock through their personal correspondence, photographs, articles that Brock and others wrote about Wigman, and preparations for "Mary Wigman Day" in 1958 as well as Wigman's 80th birthday celebration. It also contains some of Brock's correspondence with others in the dance field, including Lincoln Kirstein, John Martin, Charles Weidman, and Louis Horst, as well as Brock's lecture notes from her time as a student. less

The New York International Ballet Competition, which ran from 1984 to 2009, was a three-week artistic education, professional training, and performance program for about 50 young, scholarship-sponsored dancers from around the world. The New York International Ballet Competition records, dating from 1943 to 2011 (the bulk dates from 1983 onward), document the history of the competition through photographs, video recordings, programs, publicity literature, costume designs, competition applications, administrative files, posters, and audio recordings. less

Dance historian Lynn Garafola gathered the materials for this collection while in the process of writing a biography about Stowitts. The majority of the collection consists of copies of his correspondence, articles, exhibition guides, photographs and other materials, as well as her accompanying research notes. less

Jacques Rouché (1862-1957) was a French theater patron who managed the Théâtre des Arts (now Theatre Hébertot) and Paris Opera. He is recognized for his contributions in modernizing French theater and dance in the 20th century. The Jacques Rouché collection primarily documents Rouché's tenure at the Théâtre des Arts with articles about productions he staged, with emphasis on ballet. The collection also traces Rouché's career as manager of the Paris Opera, as well as activity at the Alhambra Theatre in London. less

Maria Karnilova (1920-2001) was an American dancer and actress whose career spanned seven decades in ballet, opera, and Broadway. The Maria Karnilova papers contain materials from 1840 to 2003 (bulk 1938-1993) that document her career, including articles, correspondence, programs, photographs, scripts, sheet music, ballet slippers, audio and video recordings, and film. less

Deborah Zall (1933-2018) was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher known for her dramatic solo works depicting historical and fictional women. The Deborah Zall papers contain materials from 1947 to 2017 that trace her career, including articles, programs, photographs, correspondence, professional documents, and audio and video recordings. less

Cynthia Gregory is a retired American dancer and former prima ballerina for the American Ballet Theatre. The Cynthia Gregory papers, dated 1946 to 2017, document her dancing career and retirement activities, with emphasis on her American Ballet Theatre tenure. The collection includes articles, programs, correspondence, photographs, awards and certificates, tutus, dance shoes, video recordings, and film. less

Margaret Fisher (1948- ) is an American media artist, choreographer and the creator of Cellular Movement, a gestural technique that embraces postmodern dance aesthetics in performance. Fisher has performed nationally and internationally with Cat's Paw Palace and MA FISH CO. Her husband, Robert Hughes, a choreographer, worked extensively on productions in MA FISH CO. The Margaret Fisher papers document the career of Margaret Fisher including a year spent in Japan studying Japanese gestural and performance techniques. The collection holds correspondence, journals, individual works, photographs, designs, printed matter, and audio and moving image materials. less