Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift, Cesi Kellinger, 2011
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Elizabeth Aldritch organized and created a detailed inventory for the Cesi Kellinger Collection of Dance Materials in 2011. Rachel McNellis and Libby Smigel reorganized and processed the collection, and McNellis coded the finding aid in 2020.
Other Repositories
Other libraries and archives that hold significant collections on Denishawn, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn include: Adelphi University; Florida State University; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; University of California, Los Angeles; and University of Florida, Gainesville.
Related Material
Many Library of Congress divisions have special collections that include materials related to Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, or the Denishawn company. Photographs, programs, and correspondence of Ruth St. Denis and other relevant material can be found in the Music Division's Oliver Daniel Papers. The Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection and the Serge Koussevitzky Archive both include correspondence with Ted Shawn. The Grace McCrae Papers and the Anne Douglas Papers each offer materials relating to their careers as Denishawn dancers. In the Prints and Photographs Division, photographs of Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and her Denishawn dancers are especially plentiful in the collection of photographer Arnold Genthe. To search for the Genthe and other photographs related to Denishawn, use the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
The Library of Congress is rich in materials that document the life and career of American modern dance pioneer Martha Graham. Collections housed in the Music Division include: the Aaron Copland Collection; Armgard von Bardeleben Papers; Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection; Benjamin Garber Papers; Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski Papers; Ethel Winter and Charles Hyman Papers; Jane Dudley Papers; Helen McGehee and Umaña Papers; Herta Moselsio photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation ; Martha Graham Collection; Martha Graham Legacy Archive; May O’Donnell Papers; Miriam Cole Papers; Music Division, Old Correspondence Files; Pearl Lang Papers; Sophie Maslow Papers; Victoria Phillips Collection; Yuriko and Susan Kikuchi Papers, among other special collections and sets of correspondence.
For collections that contain a large amount of dance-related photographic materials, the Music Division houses the Larry Colwell Dance Photographs and holds additional photographs in many other dance collections.
Among the Music Division's digital materials is the online collection titled Martha Graham at the Library of Congress, for which items from numerous Graham-related collections have been digitized.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Cesi Kellinger Collection of Dance Materials, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.