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BOX 274-275 Choreographic Notebooks
The Choreographic Notebooks series contains notebooks of ideas, sketches, steps, and steps sequences for approximately twenty-three of Graham’s choreographic works. Many were published in 1973 as The Notebooks of Martha Graham, with an introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The piano-rehearsal scores found in the Music Inventory series often contain choreographic notes.
BOX-FOLDER 274/1 In the End is My Beginning (Mary Queen of Scots)
BOX-FOLDER 274/2 I Salute My Love
BOX-FOLDER 274/3 Clytemnestra; Canticle for Innocent Comedians
BOX-FOLDER 274/4 Heloise; Time of Snow (Later thoughts on Heloise and Abelard)
BOX-FOLDER 274/5 Witch of Endor and Circe
BOX-FOLDER 274/6 Notes for dances never choreographed
BOX-FOLDER 274/7 Choreographic studies for Clytemnestra and Alcestis
BOX-FOLDER 274/8 The Dark Meadow of the Soul
BOX-FOLDER 274/9 Miscellaneous notes (Errand into the Maze)
BOX-FOLDER 274/10 Studies for Saint Joan, Heloise and Abelard, and Phaedra
BOX-FOLDER 274/11 Deaths and Entrances
BOX-FOLDER 275/1 Every Soul is a Circus
BOX-FOLDER 275/2 Medea (Cave of the Heart)
BOX-FOLDER 275/3 Herodiade
BOX-FOLDER 275/4 Panorama and Formal Dance
BOX-FOLDER 275/5 Judith
BOX-FOLDER 275/6 Unidentified
BOX-FOLDER 275/7 Unidentified
BOX-FOLDER 275/8 American Document
BOX-FOLDER 275/9 Hecuba (Cortege of Eagles)
BOX 229-238; 377-387; 398 Correspondence
The Correspondence series in the Martha Graham Collection is divided into two sections. The first covers the day-to-day activities of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham School. The letters (some carbon copies and xeroxes), memoranda, telefaxes, and telegrams are arranged chronologically by year. The correspondence is not inclusive, but covers activities from 1930 to 1996, with the majority of items from the 1980s and 1990s. The series also contains consignments, contracts, letters of agreement, promissory notes, and licenses, as well as correspondence, agendas, and member lists for the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance Board of Trustees and legal documents relating to the day-to-day activities of the Center. The second section consists of correspondence to and from Martha Graham that was unrestricted in 2008. Finally there are twelve containers of correspondence determined to be of a personal nature that are currently restricted.
The first section is arranged chronologically by year. The second section is arranged alphabetically by name.
BOX 229-238 Correspondence Dealing with Activities of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham School
BOX 229-236 Letters, Memoranda, Telefaxes, and Telegrams
BOX-FOLDER 229/1 1930; 1931; 1937; 1940; 1942; 1944; 1945; 1946
BOX-FOLDER 229/2 1947; 1948; 1949
BOX-FOLDER 229/3 1950
BOX-FOLDER 229/4-5 1951
BOX-FOLDER 229/6 1952
BOX-FOLDER 229/7 1953
BOX-FOLDER 230/1 1954; 1955; 1956
BOX-FOLDER 230/2 1957; 1958
BOX-FOLDER 230/3 1960; 1962; 1963; 1965; 1968; 1969
BOX-FOLDER 230/4 1970
BOX-FOLDER 230/5-8 1971
BOX-FOLDER 230/9 1972
BOX-FOLDER 231/1-3 1973
BOX-FOLDER 231/4-5 1974
BOX-FOLDER 231/6 1975; 1976; 1977; 1979
BOX-FOLDER 231/7 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983
BOX-FOLDER 231/8 1984; 1985
BOX-FOLDER 232/1 1986
BOX-FOLDER 232/2 1987
BOX-FOLDER 232/3-15 1988
BOX-FOLDER 233/1-3 1989
BOX-FOLDER 233/4-7 1990
BOX-FOLDER 233/8-11 1991
BOX-FOLDER 234/1-4 1993
BOX-FOLDER 234/5-6 1994
BOX-FOLDER 234/7-9 1995
BOX-FOLDER 235/1-6 1995
BOX-FOLDER 235/7-8 1996
BOX-FOLDER 236/1-2 1996
BOX-FOLDER 236/3-4 Undated items; letter fragments; unknown senders
BOX-FOLDER 236/5-7 Fan mail; cards and invitations
BOX 237 Consignments, Contracts, Letters of Agreement, Promissory Notes, and Licenses
BOX-FOLDER 237/1 American National Theatre and Academy, 1948
Isadora Bennett, 1948
Juilliard School of Music, 1952
Nathan Kroll, 1956
Martha Graham Foundation for Contemporary Dance, Inc., 1966
BOX-FOLDER 237/2 Adams Productions, 1970
Brooklyn College of CUNY (Shaw Concerts), 1970
State University of New York, Binghamton, 1970
Kritas Productions, Athens, 1971
New York State Council on the Arts, 1972
Alvin Theatre, 1973
Takako Asakawa, 1973
Feller Scenery Studios, 1973
Four Star Stage Lighting, 1973
Lake Placid Association, 1973
Merlin Group, Ltd., 1973
National Public Television, 1973-1975
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc., [197-?]
C.F. Peters Corporation, 1973
David Hatch Walker, 1973
BOX-FOLDER 237/3 Columbia Artists, 1974
Department of State, 1974
Far East Conference, 1974
Feller Scenery Studios, Inc., 1974
Kazuko Hillyer International, Inc., 1974
Nippon Cultural Centre, 1974
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1975
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 1976
Pace University/Schimel Center for the Arts, 1979
BOX-FOLDER 237/4 Alison Dodd, 1980
55th Street Dance Theater Foundation, 1982
“A Diamond for Martha” auction agreement, 1986
WNET/Thirteen, 1988
Art Planning, 1989
Doubleday, 1989
Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 1989
National Corporate Fund for Dance, Inc., 1989
Sotheby’s, 1989
Paul Szilard Productions, Inc., 1989
WNET/Thirteen, 1989
BOX-FOLDER 237/5 Chase Manhattan Bank, 1990
Spain ’92 Foundation, 1990 (2)
Creative Artists Agency, Inc., 1991
L’Opera de Paris, 1991
Carl Fischer, 1992
City Center, 1992
Gedeon Saul, 1992
Juilliard School, 1992
Marymount Manhattan College, 1992
BOX-FOLDER 237/6 Chase Manhattan Bank, 1993
Marymount Manhattan College, 1993
North American Watch, 1993
Isamu Noguchi Foundation, 1995
PaceWildenstein, 1996
WNET/Thirteen, 1996 (2)
Contract Proposal for Ballet Companies, United Scenic Artists, Local 829, undated
Release, Dance in America, undated
Television Espanola, S.A., undated
BOX-FOLDER 237/7 Contract fragments (1st or 1st and 2nd pages), undated; 1973; 1975; 1990; 1991
BOX 238 Correspondence and Materials Related to the Board of Trustees and Legal Documents, 1968-1988
BOX-FOLDER 238/1 Minutes, Board of Trustees
BOX-FOLDER 238/2 Agendas, Board of Trustees
BOX-FOLDER 238/3 Lists of members, Board of Trustees
BOX-FOLDER 238/4 Legal documents: United States Department of Justice, Notice of Approval or Extension of Nonimmigrant Visa Petition, 1988
Department of Treasury non-509 (a) determination, 1975
Bylaws of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Inc., undated
Certification of Incorporation, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance; Certificate of Change of Name of Martha Graham Foundation for Contemporary Dance to Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, 1968
Consent of Sole Surviving Member/Incorporator, 1987
BOX 398 Unrestricted Correspondence
BOX 398 To Martha Graham
BOX-FOLDER 398/1 Armstrong (US Ambassador)
BOX-FOLDER 398/2 Baer, Joseph
BOX-FOLDER 398/3 Baity, Elizabeth Chesley
BOX-FOLDER 398/4 Barton, Craig
BOX-FOLDER 398/5 Batchelder, William H.
BOX-FOLDER 398/6 Bentley, Eric
BOX-FOLDER 398/7 Brennecke, Tom (to and from)
BOX-FOLDER 398/8 Buchanan, Wiley T. [US Ambassador to Austria, 1975-1977]
BOX-FOLDER 398/9 Carson, Mrs. G. Prentice
BOX-FOLDER 398/10 Chavda, Shiavax
BOX-FOLDER 398/11 Council of Fashion Designers
BOX-FOLDER 398/12 Curtis, Donald (Church of Religious Science)
BOX-FOLDER 398/13 Dance News Invitation-Chamié, Tatiana
BOX-FOLDER 398/14 Davis, I.
BOX-FOLDER 398/15 Fine, Michael [Cunningham Dance Foundation]
BOX-FOLDER 398/16 Fischer, Barry
BOX-FOLDER 398/17 Fonteyn, Margot
BOX-FOLDER 398/18 Ford, Betty
BOX-FOLDER 398/19 Furse, Anna
BOX-FOLDER 398/20 Goldberg, H.
BOX-FOLDER 398/21 Goodkind, Louis W.
BOX-FOLDER 398/22 Graham Dance Company (card to Martha)
BOX-FOLDER 398/23 Graham, Martha (solicitations)
BOX-FOLDER 398/24 Graham School
BOX-FOLDER 398/25 Hare, Raymond (US Ambassador to Turkey, 1961-1965)
BOX-FOLDER 398/26 Harkness, Mrs. William H.
BOX-FOLDER 398/27 Hendelson, Margaret
BOX-FOLDER 398/28 Highet, Helen
BOX-FOLDER 398/29 Hindemith, Paul (assistant to)
BOX-FOLDER 398/30 Hoffman, May Foke
BOX-FOLDER 398/31 Hovhaness, Alan
BOX-FOLDER 398/32 Jackson, David
BOX-FOLDER 398/33 Johns, Jasper (from Martha Graham)
BOX-FOLDER 398/34 Jones, Lewis
BOX-FOLDER 398/35 Kanda, Akiko
BOX-FOLDER 398/36 Kawakami, Takako
BOX-FOLDER 398/37 Kenedy, Hailou
BOX-FOLDER 398/38 Kikuchi, Yuriko
BOX-FOLDER 398/39 Kirstein, Lincoln
BOX-FOLDER 398/40 Kuypens, John M.
BOX-FOLDER 398/41 Lalaounis, Ilias
BOX-FOLDER 398/42 Leona, Margaret
BOX-FOLDER 398/43 Leonard, Fox, Ltd. [rare books]
BOX-FOLDER 398/44 Liebenberg, Jean
BOX-FOLDER 398/45 MacArthur, Gray [New York State Council on the Arts]
BOX-FOLDER 398/46 Masrty-Ané, C.
BOX-FOLDER 398/47 Masani, Mrs. M. R.
BOX-FOLDER 398/48 McBean, Angus
BOX-FOLDER 398/49 McCormick, K.D.
BOX-FOLDER 398/50 Menotti, Gian Carlo
BOX-FOLDER 398/51 Merola, James
BOX-FOLDER 398/52 Morgan, Barbara
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