Scope and arrangement
The Gertrude Lippincott Collection of Ballet Music contains music used by Lippincott in the creation of ballets.
Arrangement
The collection is in a single series and is arranged alphabetically by composer.
The Gertrude Lippincott Collection of Ballet Music, JPB 98-26, Music Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
The Gertrude Lippincott Collection of Ballet Music contains music used by Lippincott in creating ballets.
Gertrude Lippincott was a modern dancer, choreographer, educator, and founder of the Modern Dance Center in Minneapolis. She was born in 1913 and developed an interest in dance an early age. She was educated at University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, in Mary Wigman technique in London, Bennington College, in classes with Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Hanya Holm, Louis Horst, Ella Daganova, and received a Master's degree from New York University. She began her performing career with the University of Minnesota Dance Group in the early 1930s and later toured the University, Mills College and other institutions. In 1937 she established the Modern Dance Center of Minneapolis. She was co-editor of Dance Observer and wrote articles for Journal of Health and Physical Education, Impuls and other periodicals.
Gertrude Lippincott died June 2, 1996.
The Gertrude Lippincott Collection of Ballet Music contains music used by Lippincott in the creation of ballets.
The collection is in a single series and is arranged alphabetically by composer.
The Gertrude Lippincott Collection of Ballet Music was received from the estate of Gerturde Lippincott, by way of the Dance Collection.
Processed by Martha Grutchfield; machine-readable finding aid created by Robert Kosovsky.
The major portion of the Gertrude Lippincott papers resides in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, classmark: (S) *MGZMD 114.
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