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Creator
Woodard, Stephanie
Call number
(S) *MGZMD 525
Physical description
3.63 linear feet (5 boxes)
Language
Multiple languages; English, Indonesian
Preferred Citation
Stephanie Woodard Javanese Dance collection, (S) *MGZMD 525. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Repository
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Access to materials
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Stephanie Woodard is a dancer and choreographer. This collection is composed of materials related to Javanese classical dance, compiled while she was a graduate student. This includes academic texts, her notes, slides and photographs musical notations, video recordings, as well as pieces of a Javanese female dancer's costume and a puppet representation of a dancer, and a selection of Woodard's later articles on general dance topics.

Biographical/historical information

Stephanie Woodard is a dancer and choreographer, with an MA in World Music from Wesleyan University (1974), where she focused on Javanese classical dance and music. While earning this degree, she studied and taught dance in Java. Since 1969, together with Peter Zummo, she has directed a music and dance group called Woodard Zummo and Company, which is on the New York Foundation for the Arts residency roster. She has also written on dance for a number of publications, including Dance Research Journal, Contact Quarterly, New Dance (GB), and Dance Magazine. In addition to this, she is an inaugural member of David Gordon's Pick-Up Company, has danced for Kenneth King, and taught dance all over the world.

Scope and arrangement

The majority of the collection is related to Woodard's study of dance in Java during her period of graduate study and consists of articles, her journal, a copy of her thesis, slides (many of which feature the dancer Theresia Suharti), photographs, musical notations, video recordings, as well as pieces of a Javanese female dancer's costume and a puppet representation of a dancer, and a selection of Woodard's later articles on general dance topics.

The Stephanie Woodard Javanese Dance collection is arranged in five series:

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Donated by Stephanie Woodard, 2019.

Processing information

Processed by Stacey Ference in 2020.

Using the collection

Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor