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BOX 4 Professional Papers, 1951-2007
Journals, publications, and other documentation pertaining to Muriel Manings's career in dance.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or format.
BOX-FOLDER 4/1 Biographical documents, 1970-1980s
Curriculum vitae, resumes, narrative biographies, lists of choreography
BOX-FOLDER 4/2 Contract, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 4/3-4 Journals, 1970, 1984
Note: Documentation of Cuba engagements
BOX-FOLDER 4/5-6 Interview transcripts, 2003, 2007
BOX-FOLDER 4/7-8 Lectures, undated
BOX-FOLDER 4/9 Letter on repertory dancers, 1970
BOX-FOLDER 4/10 List of communists, undated
Photocopied excerpt, 2 p.
Note: Includes Manings and Korff
BOX-FOLDER 4/11-12 Writings, 1971, circa 1986
Note: On dance in Cuba
BOX 6 Correspondence, 1949-1999
Personal and professional letters and other communications.
Arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent or name of organization.
BOX-FOLDER 6/1 Anthony, Mary, 1989
1 letter
BOX-FOLDER 6/2 Connecticut College School of Dance, 1967-1968
2 letters
Note: Workshop for teens
BOX-FOLDER 6/3 Delza, Sophie, 1993
1 letter
Note: Thank-you to American Dance Guild
BOX-FOLDER 6/4-7 Dudley, Jane, 1966, 1987-1999
30 letters, cards, envelopes
Note: Topics include New Dance Group gala, Dudley's London engagement
BOX-FOLDER 6/8 Gentry, Eve, circa 1992-1993
2 letters and enclosure
Note: Includes information on Gentry's Tenant of the Street
BOX-FOLDER 6/9 Johns, Bud, 1998
1 letter
Note: Refers to wife, dancer Judith Spector, and NDG artist Mary Anthony
BOX-FOLDER 6/10 Manings, Muriel, to William Korff, [1949]
4 letters, 1 card
Note: Card identifies undated items as 1949 correspondence from Manings to Korff while in Montreal, Canada
BOX-FOLDER 6/11 Manings, Muriel, to William Korff, 1949, and undated
10 letters, 1 envelope, 1 card
Note: Card identifies undated items as 1949 correspondence from Manings to Korff while at American Dance Festival, Connecticut College
BOX-FOLDER 6/12 Manings, Muriel, 1954
1 telegram, 1 card
Note: Congratulations on Sandhog
BOX-FOLDER 6/13-15 Manings, Muriel, to family, 1970, and undated
11 letters, 3 undated excerpts
Note: Letters written during Manings's 1970 trip to Cuba
BOX-FOLDER 6/16 Manings, Muriel, 1993
24 items
Note: Regarding New Dance Group gala
BOX-FOLDER 6/17 McKayle, Donald, 1993
1 letter
Note: Materials submitted for New Dance Group gala
BOX-FOLDER 6/18 Mullin, Hilda, 1997
1 letter
Note: Reminiscences on early New Dance Group period; referenced enclosure not included
BOX-FOLDER 6/19 Nagrin, Daniel, circa 1993
1 letter
Note: Program copy for New Dance Group gala
BOX-FOLDER 6/20 National Endowment for the Arts, 1993
2 photocopied letters
Note: Award letter to American Dance Guild for New Dance Group gala videorecording project
BOX-FOLDER 6/21 O'Hara, Shane, circa 1993
1 letter
Note: Participation in New Dance Group gala
BOX-FOLDER 6/22 Repertory Dancers of New Jersey, 1969
4 letters
Note: Workshops of Repertory Dancers, led by Muriel Manings
BOX-FOLDER 6/23 Tobey, Alton S., 1958
1 photocopied letter, 1 p.
BOX 1 DF Photographs, 1914-1993
Chiefly photographs and prints of scanned images of ballet and modern dance choreography, artists, and dance companies. Includes digital scans as well, mostly of Muriel Manings.
Principle file format: .jpg
Organized as two subseries.
Dance Works, 1914, 1935, 1944-1948
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 A 90 millas [90 miles], undated
1 black-and-white photograph
Photographer: unknown
Choreographer: Lorna Burdsall
Dancers: Gerardo Lastra
Note: Conjunto Nacional de Danza de Cuba
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 American exodus, 1937
1 photograph
Photographer: Works Progress Administration [WPA]
Choreographer: Myra Kinch
Dancers: Clay Dalton, Myra Kinch
Note: Federal Theatre Project credits on verso
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Appalachian spring, 1944
1 black-and-white photograph
Photographer: unknown
Choreographer: Martha Graham
Dancers: Erick Hawkins, Martha Graham, and 5 others
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Ball in Old Vienna, undated
1 photograph
Photographer: unknown
Choreographer: Kurt Jooss
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Ballade, undated
1 photograph
Photographer: unknown
Choreographer: Kurt Jooss
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 Ballet imperial, circa 1941
1 black-and-white photograph
Photographer: unknown
Choreographer: George Balanchine for Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Dancers: Maria Tallchief, Mary Ellen Moylan, Nicolas Magallanes
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 Birthday party [?], circa 1938
1 print
Photographer: unknown
Choreographer: Jane Dudley
Pictured from left: Billie Kirpich, David Wood, Anneliese Widman, Muriel Manings, Irving Burton, Charles Czarney, Sophie Maslow, William Bales
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 Ceremonial de la danza, undated
1 black-and-white photograph
Photographer: unknown
Choreographer: Ramiro Guerra
Dancer: unidentified
Note: Conjunto Nacional de Danza de Cuba
BOX-FOLDER 1/9 Champion, [1948]
2 two-sided prints
Photographer: Isadora Bennett and Richard Pleasant, NYC
Choreographer: Sophie Maslow
Dancers: Mary Anthony, Jane Dudley, Andrea Hadgin, Billie Kirpich, Muriel Manings, Sophie Maslow, Normand Maxon, Donald McKayle, Alvin Shulman
BOX-FOLDER 1/10 Coming attractions, [1951]
4 prints
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