Scope and arrangement
The collection dates from the 1940s to 1950s, and contains negatives depicting dancers and dance performances photographed by Otto F. Hess. The negatives are arranged alphabetically by the name or topic assigned by Hess. Among those depicted are Theodore Adolphus, Valerie Bettis, Martha Graham, Eileen Darby, Anton Dolin, Michael Kidd, Alicia Markova, Léonide Massine, Jerome Robbins, Robert Sidney, Anna Sokolow, Helen Tamiris, Antony Tudor, Charles Weidman, and Igor Youskevitch.