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BOX 10-15, 35-38, 42-43, 45, 48-49, 51-55 MAPCASE 3 Production Files, 1928-1996 (bulk 1936-1955)
Information related to specific productions and choreographic works put on by Lester Horton and the Dance Theater company is organized in this series. Material types include costume and set renderings, photographs, programs, scripts, typed scenarios, and licensing agreements with composers.
Organized as two subseries, Individual Works and Programs.
Individual Works, 1928-1981
This subseries consists primarily of photographs and design renderings of individual dance works created or considered by Horton or the Dance Theater. Some files contain scripts or written dance scenarios. The majority of the pieces were created by Horton, but works presented by the company after his death are also included such as Alvin Ailey's According to St. Francis. There is a significant amount of material documenting the different iterations and revisions to Horton's Salome. Also found in this subseries are six props and costume pieces used in performance. Unless otherwise noted, all productions listed are choreographic works.
Arranged alphabetically by title of work.
BOX-FOLDER 36/1 7 Scenes with Ballabilli, 1952
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 10/9 According to St. Francis, 1954
Photograph and scenario
BOX-FOLDER 10/10 Annie Get Your Gun (musical), 1951
Typescript
Another Touch of Klee
BOX-FOLDER 45/3 Costume and set designs, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 10/11, 36/2-3 Photographs, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 42/6 The Art Patrons, 1935
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 10/12 Aztec Ceremonial, 1933
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 11/1 Bal Caribe, 1953-1956
Photographs
Note: Includes Bolero, Kandyan, and Miss Salome
Bamboo Alley
BOX-FOLDER 45/4 Costume designs, 1951-1955
BOX-FOLDER 11/2 Photographs, 1951-1955
BOX-FOLDER 11/3 Barrel House, 1948-1949
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 36/4-5, 48/1 Batucada, 1951
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 45/5 Beguine, undated
Costume designs
BOX-FOLDER 11/4 The Beloved, 1948-1974
Choreographic notation, photographs, and programs
BOX-FOLDER 11/5 A Bouquet for Molly, 1950
Photographs and scenario
Note: Includes scenario for The Cottonwood Leaves are Whisperin'
BOX-FOLDER 11/6 Brown County, Indiana, 1950
Photographs, scenario, and set designs
BOX-FOLDER 45/6 Cakewalk, undated
Costume designs
BOX-FOLDER 36/6 Carmen, 1948-1949
Photograph
BOX-FOLDER 11/7 Carnival in (Bahia, Recife or ?), circa 1945
Scenario
BOX-FOLDER 11/8 Carolina and the Quaker, undated
Scenario
Chronicle
BOX-FOLDER 11/9, 36/7, 42/7 Costume and set designs, circa 1940
BOX-FOLDER 11/10, 36/7, 42/7 Photographs, circa 1940
BOX-FOLDER 11/11 Chungsville, 1955
Photograph
BOX-FOLDER 11/12 Crèation du Monde, 1954
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 11/13 Cuba Antigua, circa 1955
Photographs
Cumbia
BOX-FOLDER 45/7 Costume designs, circa 1954
BOX-FOLDER 11/14 Photographs, circa 1954
BOX-FOLDER 11/15 Dancing Americans, undated
Scenarios
BOX-FOLDER 11/16 Danzón, 1950
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 11/17 De Morte, undated
Scenario
Dedications in Our Time
BOX-FOLDER 11/18, 48/2 Photographs, 1952-1954, 1981
BOX 51 Two leather bandoliers, circa 1955
Note: Used in Dedication to José Clemente Orozco
BOX 51 Purple shawl, circa 1955
Note: Used in Dedication to José Clemente Orozco
BOX 52 Straw sombrero, circa 1955
Note: Used in Dedication to José Clemente Orozco
BOX-FOLDER 11/19 Dybbuk, undated
Scenario
BOX-FOLDER 12/1 The Empty Chair, 1955
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 12/2 The Family, undated
Scenario
BOX-FOLDER 36/8 The Flop, circa 1955
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 12/3 Frevo, 1950-1954
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 12/4 Girl Crazy (musical), 1951
Annotated typescript
BOX-FOLDER 12/5 Jenny and the Bench of the Lamb, 1949
Photographs
Liberian Suite
BOX-FOLDER 45/8, 48/3 Costume designs, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 12/6 Cue sheet, licensing agreement, photographs, and scenario, 1952-1956
BOX-FOLDER 36/9, 48/4 Photographs, 1952-1956
MAPCASE-DRAWER 3/4 Set design, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 12/7 Lonely Hearts (play), 1952
Annotated typescript
BOX-FOLDER 42/8 Lysistrata, 1936-1937
Photographs
Medea
BOX-FOLDER 12/8, 36/10 Photographs, 1951-1956
BOX 53 Prop: mirror of brass and wood, 1951-1956
BOX-FOLDER 12/9 Medicine Show, undated
Scenario
BOX-FOLDER 42/9 The Mine, 1935
Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 12/10 Mirror, Mirror, 1955
Photographs
Mound Builders
BOX-FOLDER 45/9 Costume designs, 1935
BOX-FOLDER 42/10 Photographs, 1935
On the Upbeat
Note: Includes Brush off Blues, Chassidic, Kathak, and Pwe Bop
BOX-FOLDER 12/11 Licensing agreements and photographs, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 38/1, 48/5-6 Photographs, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 12/12 The Park, 1949-1950
Photographs and scenario
BOX-FOLDER 12/13 Los Penitenties, circa 1935
Costume and set designs
BOX-FOLDER 12/14 Phoenix Aground, undated
Scenario
BOX-FOLDER 38/2 Plumed Serpent, 1958
Photographs
Prado de Pena
BOX-FOLDER 12/15, 38/3-5, 48/7-8 Photographs, 1952-1953
BOX-FOLDER 12/15 Program and scenario, 1952-1953
BOX 54 Prop: yellow papier-mâché figure, 1952-1953
BOX-FOLDER 13/1 Pueblo Eagle Dance, 1929
Photograph
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