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American Ballet Theatre archive, 1940-2014

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Photographs, 1940-2009 (continued)
BOX 24-26 Miscellany
418 images
BOX-FOLDER 25/11-24 Contact Sheets
BOX-FOLDER 29/18 Gala: 20th Anniversary, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 24/36-55, 29/19 Gala: 35th Anniversary, 1975
Note: Includes photos of performances, curtain calls, and people
BOX-FOLDER 25/1-6 Gala, 1979
BOX-FOLDER 29/20 Gala: 40th Anniversary, 1980
BOX-FOLDER 25/7-8 Gala, 2009
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 Gala Benefit for Los Angeles Music Center, 1972
BOX-FOLDER 24/20-31, 29/13-16 Groups and company shots
Includes: Antony Tudor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Agnes de Mille, Jane Hermann, Bruce Marks, Jerome Robbins, Demitri Romanoff, and many others
Note: Locations include studio rehearsals, touring sites, award ceremonies, visits to Washington and to the New York City mayor's office, and meetings, among others
Note: Includes shots of filming The Turning Point
BOX-FOLDER 29/21-32 Magazine Covers, 1947, 1958, 1965-1966, 1977-1995, 2002-2005
Note: Prints of Dance Magazine covers featuring Amerivan Ballet Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 25/25-33 Negatives
BOX-FOLDER 24/1-19 Pairs in unidentified works or locations
Includes: Alicia Alonso, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, Cynthia Gregory, Nora Kaye, Susan Jaffe, Ruth Ann Koesun, Robert LaFosse, Toni Lander, Kevin McKenzie, Toni Morrison, Lupe Serrano, Martine van Hamel, and many others
BOX-FOLDER 26/1-68 Paul B. Goode photographs
Note: Rehearsals and studio groupings, among others; most with subjects identified
Note: Photos arranged by their original order
BOX-FOLDER 25/10 Premiere of Don Quixote, 1978
Note: President Jimmy Carter, Lee Radziwill, and others at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
BOX-FOLDER 24/56 Special Event, Family Day, undated
BOX-FOLDER 24/32-35 Unidentified rehearsals
BOX 30-54 Dance Notes and Notation, 1955-1980s
1,481 items
Primarily choreographic and production notes, including partial and full Benesh notation scores and sketches, for repertory of American Ballet Theatre. Cast and prop lists, music, stage plans, rehearsal notes, brief scenarios, and descriptions of dance technique are occasionally included. Ancillary items, such as clippings, programs, or photographs found with the scores, are now located in the Clippings and Photographs series.
Arranged alphabetically by title of dance work.
BOX-FOLDER 30/1 Afternoon of a faun
BOX-FOLDER 30/2-3 Airs
BOX-FOLDER 30/4-5 Amnon v'Tamar
BOX-FOLDER 31/1-2 Anastasia
BOX-FOLDER 31/3 Apollo
BOX-FOLDER 31/4-8 Ballet imperial
BOX-FOLDER 32/1 Le baiser de la fée
BOX-FOLDER 32/2-5 La bayadère
BOX-FOLDER 32/6 Beatrice
BOX-FOLDER 33/1 Billy the Kid
BOX-FOLDER 33/2-4 Birthday offering
BOX-FOLDER 33/5-7 Bourrée fantasque
BOX-FOLDER 33/8 Brief fling
BOX-FOLDER 34/1-2 Carmen
BOX-FOLDER 34/3-5, 35/1-4 Cinderella
BOX-FOLDER 35/5-6 Clair de lune
BOX-FOLDER 36/1-2 Concerto
BOX-FOLDER 36/3 Le corsaire
BOX-FOLDER 36/4 Danses concertantes
BOX-FOLDER 36/5 Dark elegies
BOX-FOLDER 36/6 Désir
BOX-FOLDER 36/7 Don Quixote
BOX-FOLDER 36/8 Donizetti variations
BOX-FOLDER 37/1 Duets
BOX-FOLDER 37/2 Estuaries
BOX-FOLDER 37/3 Etudes
BOX-FOLDER 37/4 Fantaisie serieuse
BOX-FOLDER 37/5-6 Field, chair and mountain
BOX-FOLDER 38/1 La fille mal gardée
BOX-FOLDER 38/2-3 Firebird
BOX-FOLDER 38/4 Flower Festival in Genzano
BOX-FOLDER 38/5 Follow the feet
BOX-FOLDER 38/6-7 Francesca da Rimini
BOX-FOLDER 39/1-3 Gala performance
BOX-FOLDER 39/4-7 Giselle
BOX-FOLDER 40/1 Grass
BOX-FOLDER 40/2-4 Great Galloping Gottschalk
BOX-FOLDER 41/1 The guards of Amager
BOX-FOLDER 41/2 Hamlet connotations
BOX-FOLDER 41/3-6 Interludes
BOX-FOLDER 42/1-3 Jardin aux lilas
BOX-FOLDER 42/4 The little ballet
Premiere title: Once upon a time
BOX-FOLDER 42/5 Manon
Pas de deux only
BOX-FOLDER 42/6-7 Miscellany
BOX-FOLDER 42/8 The Mollino room
BOX-FOLDER 42/9 The Moor's pavane
BOX-FOLDER 43/1-4 N.Y. export: op. jazz
BOX-FOLDER 43/5 Les noces
BOX-FOLDER 43/6-7 The nutcracker
BOX-FOLDER 44/1 Orpheus
Pas de deux only
BOX-FOLDER 44/2 Pas de quatre
BOX-FOLDER 44/3 Les patineurs
BOX-FOLDER 44/4 Pierrot lunaire
BOX-FOLDER 44/5 Pillar of fire
BOX-FOLDER 44/6 Push comes to shove
BOX-FOLDER 44/7-8 Quartet
BOX-FOLDER 45/1-4 Raymonda
BOX-FOLDER 46/1 Rendezvous
BOX-FOLDER 46/2 Requium
BOX-FOLDER 46/3-4 Rite of spring
BOX-FOLDER 46/5-7 Romeo and Juliet
BOX-FOLDER 47/1 Sequels
BOX-FOLDER 47/2-4 Serious pleasures
BOX-FOLDER 47/5 Shadowplay
BOX-FOLDER 47/6, 48/1-5, 49/1 Sleeping beauty
BOX-FOLDER 49/2-4 Souvenir de Florence
BOX-FOLDER 49/5 Sphinx
BOX-FOLDER 49/6 Stravinsky violin concerto
BOX-FOLDER 50/1-5 Swan Lake
BOX-FOLDER 51/1 La sylphide
BOX-FOLDER 51/2 Symphonic variations
BOX-FOLDER 51/3-5, 52/1 Symphonie concertante
BOX-FOLDER 52/2 Three preludes
BOX-FOLDER 52/3 Torso
BOX-FOLDER 52/4-5 Triad
BOX-FOLDER 53/1-3 Undertow
BOX-FOLDER 53/4-6 Voluntaries
BOX-FOLDER 54/1-3 The wild boy
BOX-FOLDER 54/4-6 Unidentified
Scores, sketches, or notes lacking title of choreography

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