Scope and Content Note
This one-box collection offers iconography and published materials documenting the life and dance career of George Zoritch.
The Photographs series includes his performances in ballets such as Afternoon of a Faun, Le Spectre de la rose, among many others, with a number of the century's greatest dancers, including Alexandra Danilova, Alicia Markova, Mia Slavenska, Rosella Hightower, and Tamara Toumanova. Also included are photographs of Zoritch with ballet teacher Olga Preobrajenskaya and choreographer Léonide Massine. It also includes numerous travel photographs, photographs with other dancers and Zoritch's family. Later photographs document him at social functions with artists in film and dance.
The Miscellany series includes clippings, interviews with Zoritch, reviews of his memoir Ballet Mystique: Behind the Glamour of the Ballet Russe, among other published material documenting his career. A three-part article on Zoritch in the Russian magazine Ballet as well as materials that detail Zoritch's contributions to the Dance Division at the University of Arizona are also included.