Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or records:
Collection
Found in:
Music Division
Dance Notation Collection
Identifier: ML31.D35
Abstract
The Dance Notation Collection consists of scenarios, scores in codified dance notation, and descriptions of dance dating from 1893 to 1983, many of which originated from copyright deposits submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office to register rights for choreography. Most of these scores are recorded in Labanotation (also known as Kinetography Laban), the system of dance notation that Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958) developed. George Balanchine, Doris Humphrey, Kurt Jooss, Léonide Massine, and...
Dates
1893-1983; Majority of material found within 1947-1983
Collection
Found in:
Music Division
Pola Nirenska Collection
Identifier: ML31.N57
Abstract
Correspondence, choreographic notes, music manuscripts, poetry, personal papers, biographical materials, including interviews, articles, reviews, and newspaper clippings, programs, publicity materials, such as flyers and posters, scrapbooks, art work, including costume designs, photographic material, memorabilia, books, and other papers relating chiefly to Nirenska's career as a dancer, choreographer, and educator in the United States. The bulk of the collection consists of photographic...
Dates
1910-1992; Majority of material found within ( 1950-1992)
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Elizabeth Severn and Margaret Severn Papers
Identifier: MSS85409
Abstract
Elizabeth Severn, psychotherapist, author, and psychoanalytic patient of Sándor Ferenczi; and her daughter, Margaret Severn, ballet dancer and vaudeville performer. Correspondence, writings, printed matter, and photographs concerning Elizabeth Severn's private life and her career as a psychotherapist. Correspondence, writings, art work, printed matter, photographs, and digital files relating to Margaret Severn's life as a dancer in New York theaters, in traveling vaudeville shows in the...
Dates
1880-1994; Majority of material found within ( 1910-1992)