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BOX 1-31 MAPCASE 7 Production Files,1940-2008
Records, notes, charts, blueprints, lighting plots, elevations, cue sheets, correspondence, invoices and receipts, and other materials that document the practical preparations and execution of mounting dance performances. Almost all of the productions are those of the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Arranged chronologically by year. Where possible within each year, items concerning a specific topic or related to a specific venue are grouped together. The original order of the production files was generally chronological, and this arrangement has been retained to a great extent.
BOX-FOLDER 1/1-3 1940
Production records for touring schedule; invoices of Jean Rosenthal and Theatre Production Services (TPS); contractual correspondence
Note: Most items are related to January 1941 performances
BOX-FOLDER 1/4-12 1941
Production and administrative records
Note: Includes production notes for Punch and the Judy
BOX-FOLDER 1/13-14 1942
Production and budget notes; correspondence
Note: Includes correspondence between TPS and Erick Hawkins
BOX-FOLDER 1/15-19 1943
Production and budget documents; correspondence
Note: Includes rental agreement with Ballet Caravan
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 to 2/10, 29/1, 31/1 1944
Notebooks, correspondence, and technical specs for Washington performances
Note: Includes correspondence, sketches, and other records for October premiere of Appalachian spring at Library of Congress
BOX-FOLDER 2/11-18, 31/2 1945
Contractual, legal, and other correspondence, including dispute with Austin Wilder management; equipment lists; cue sheets; diagrams and sketches; production notebooks; programs and flyers
Note: Several production documents from the 1944 National Theatre performances were included among 1945 production items
BOX-FOLDER 3/1-10 1946
Production documents for touring schedule with notes on verso; financial documents
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1946
Ground plan and light plot for tour
BOX-FOLDER 3/11-16 1947
Contracts; correspondence; lists for touring and stage management; detailed production notes for all Graham ballets performed in 1947
Note: Includes notes on Erick Hawkins's Stephen Acrobat and John Brown
BOX-FOLDER 3/17-22 1948
Production records for season at Maxine Elliott Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 3/23 to 4/5 1949
Itinerary and theater specs for 1949 tour; production documents for stage management of Graham company
Note: Includes several documents for New York City Ballet and New York City Dance Theatre
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1949
Light plot and tormenter plan and board hook-up for road tour
BOX-FOLDER 4/6-21, 29/2, 31/3 1950
Production records for 46th Street Theatre season, Carnegie Hall performances, and a small amount on the 1950 European tour
Note: Includes records for Graham's Gospel of Eve and Judith , and Hawkins choreographies
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1950
Light and hanging plot for 46th Street Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 4/22-24 1951
Records for Louisville and Denver performances and bus tour
BOX-FOLDER 5/1-5, 31/4 1952
Records for performances at Juilliard
BOX-FOLDER 5/6-23, 29/3, 30/1 1953
Production records for performances of the American Dance Festival at the Alvin Theatre; some documentation of performances at Juilliard, YMHA, and Baltimore
Note: Works of Graham's contemporaries, such as Nina Fonaroff, Helen McGehee, Doris Humphrey, Jose Limon, May O'Donnell, Pearl Lang, and Merce Cunningham, are represented in the production files for the American Dance Festival
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1953
Light plots and elevation for American Dance Festival, Alvin Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 6/1-21, 29/4, 31/5 1955
Production records for American Dance Festival at ANTA; preparations for Graham company's first U.S. State Department-sponsored tour abroad in 1955-1956
Note: Production notes for works by Doris Humphrey, Jose Limon, Valerie Bettis, Daniel Nagrin, Anna Halprin, Pauline Koner, Anna Sokolow, are among the records for the American Dance Festival
BOX-FOLDER 7/1-11 1958
Production records for performances at Adelphi Theatre; "transposition" of earlier technical specs to 1958 charts
Note: Includes documentation for premiere of Clytemnestra
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1958
Light plots and elevations for Adelphi Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 7/12-15 1960
Production specs for season at 54th Street Theatre
Note: Includes preparations for new work Alcestis
BOX-FOLDER 7/16 1961
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1961
Ground plan and elevations for One More Gaudy Night; revised light plot and elevation
BOX-FOLDER 7/17-23 1962
BOX-FOLDER 8/1-9 1963
Production records for performances at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 1964
Newspaper photo clipping of Graham dancer Mary Hinkson in group of four artists
BOX-FOLDER 8/11-15 1965
Technical documents for performances at 54th Street Theatre
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1965
Light plot for 54th Street Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 8/16 1966-1968
Flame proofing documentation
BOX-FOLDER 8/17-18 1967
Production records for performances at Hellinger Theatre
Note: See also production documents in 1963, annotated for 1967
BOX-FOLDER 8/19-23 1968
Production records for performances at George Abbott Theatre and Brooklyn Academy of Music
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1968
Revised light plot for Brooklyn Academy of Music
BOX-FOLDER 8/24-25 1969
BOX-FOLDER 8/26 1972-1979
Flame proofing documentation
BOX-FOLDER 8/27-31 1973
Records of May performances at the Alvin Theatre
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1973
Light and hanging plots for Alvin Theatre
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1973
Stage platform diagrams
BOX-FOLDER 8/32-35 1974
Records of performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre and Asia tour specs
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1974
Light and hanging plots for Mark Hellinger Theatre and tour
BOX-FOLDER 9/1-12, 29/5 1975
Production files for gala benefit and New York and tour performances
Note: Includes Nureyev agreement and production records for premiere of Lucifer, choreographed for him
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1975
Electric and hanging plot for tour
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1975
Poster for Martha Graham Dance Company, Mark Hellinger Theatre
BOX-FOLDER 9/13-20 1976
Production and budget records for European tour, Kennedy Center and Cincinnati performances, and Mexico
Note: Also includes preliminary estimates for 1977 operations
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1976
Light and hanging plots for Cincinnati Music Hall and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1976
Light and hanging plot for European tour
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1976-1977
Stage plans for Benito Juárez Theatre, Mexico
BOX-FOLDER 9/21 to 11/25, 30/2-7 1977
Repertory binder (with 1980 additions); Calder gala and Lunt Fontanne records, including contracts
Note: Includes correspondence and set and prop diagrams related to the 1978 Isamu Noguchi exhibits at Walker Art Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1977
Light plots for Lunt-Fontanne Theatre; stage plans for Murray Theatre (Highland Park, Illinois)
BOX-FOLDER 12/1 to 16/3, 30/8-9 1978
Production records for Metropolitan Opera House, Ravinia Festival, and domestic tour performances
Note: Includes lighting and stage manager notebooks
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 1978
Light plot for fall road tour
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 1978
Plan and elevations for O Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing
BOX-FOLDER 16/4-48 1978-1979?
Retrospective binder of positive and negative prints of stage plans, designs, and crate boxing
Note: Organized by choreography: some early works corrected for 1970s; some prints labeled "uncorrected"; several items not identifiable; includes items for two Erick Hawkins choreographies, Stephen Acrobat and John Brown
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