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7 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Dancers--United States--Biography.
Franziska Boas collection, 1920-1988
circa 13,250 items. 95 containers. 36 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Correspondence, labanotation scores and other choreographic notes, business records, playbills, production material, writings by Franz Boas, artwork, and other papers chiefly documenting the life and career of pioneering dancer and teacher Franziska Boas.
Muriel Manings and William Korff papers, 1914-2007
1,088 items . 6 containers. 2.5 linear feet. 50 digital files (71.19 MB). -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Performer and teacher Muriel Manings and her husband William Korff, a performer, dance historian, and writer, compiled a substantial collection of materials that highlight activities of the New Dance Group, with particular emphasis on the dance trio of members William Bales, Jane Dudley, and Sophie Maslow. Manings's acumen as a teacher of modern dance earned her two engagements to teach in Cuba, both of which are documented in personal journals. Her leadership with the American Dance Guild and the ADG-sponsored gala celebrating the New Dance Group is also well documented in this collection.
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Benjamin Garber papers, 1916-2009
835 items . 8 containers. 4.3 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Benjamin Garber (1927-2001) was a distinguished interior designer who had a brief career as a dancer and enjoyed a close personal relationship with modern dance icon Martha Graham until the mid-1970s. The materials in the collection focus primarily on Garber's relationship with Martha Graham. Graham-related materials include correspondence, photographs, Graham dance company papers, programs, clippings and articles, and oral histories. Graham's convalescence at Garber's home Cross River is documented among these materials, as is Garber’s career as an interior designer and art collector.
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Jane Dudley papers, 1909-2001
Approximately 1,230 items. 11 boxes. 9.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Jane Dudley was an American dancer and choreographer known early in her career for her work with the Martha Graham Company, the New Dance Group, and as a co-founder of the Dudley-Maslow-Bales Trio. She went on to serve as artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company in Israel before joining the faculty of the London School of Contemporary Dance. Her papers primarily consist of clippings, correspondence, musical scores, photographs, and programs related to her professional life.
Maxine Glorsky papers relating to Martha Graham, 1940-2019
3,455 items. 31 containers. 18 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
The collection of Maxine Glorsky focuses on her relationship with the Martha Graham Dance Company as its stage manager during the 1970s and early 1980s. It also incorporates substantial material from Jean Rosenthal, Graham’s lighting designer during the 1940s and 1950s. The collection includes many cue sheets for both stage management and lighting purposes, lighting plots, related technical materials, business papers for Glorsky’s Technical Assistance Group (TAG) Foundation and Rosenthal’s Theatre Production Service (TPS), correspondence, and a modest amount of publicity, news clippings, and programs.
Larry Warren collection on Anna Sokolow and Lester Horton, 1903-2007
approximately 4,550 items. 15 containers. 9 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
This collection documents the research conducted by dancer, choreographer, and educator Larry Warren (1932-2009) while writing his biographies Lester Horton: Modern Dance Pioneer (1977) and Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spirit (1991). The clippings, correspondence, dance notation, interviews, notes, photographs, programs, scrapbooks, and writings collected or created by Warren reveal his process in capturing the lives of two major figures in twentieth-century modern dance and have the potential to shed new light on the lives and careers of these artists. The bulk of the collection is devoted to Warren's research on Sokolow, but there is also significant documentation on the movement technique Horton created and taught.
Research materials on Martha Graham, 1928-2023
approximately 1,250 items. 10 containers. 4 mapcase folders. 4.75 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Martha Graham (1894-1991) was an internationally acclaimed modern dance choreographer and performer of the twentieth century. The Research Materials on Martha Graham is an artificial collection conceived to assemble the documentation of Martha Graham's legacy generated from projects funded by a 1998 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). The collection includes transcripts of interviews, photographs, performance and event programs, clippings and publications, correspondence, awards, materials documenting Library of Congress events pertaining to Graham, and other items related to Graham and her company.