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BOX 1-31 MAPCASE 7 |
Production Files,1940-2008
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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. |
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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
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Production records for touring schedule; invoices of Jean
Rosenthal and Theatre Production Services (TPS); contractual correspondence |
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Note: Most items are related to January 1941
performances |
BOX-FOLDER 1/4-12 |
1941
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Production and administrative records |
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Note: Includes production notes for Punch
and the Judy
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BOX-FOLDER 1/13-14 |
1942
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Production and budget notes; correspondence |
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Note: Includes correspondence between TPS and Erick Hawkins
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BOX-FOLDER 1/15-19 |
1943
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Production and budget documents; correspondence |
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Note: Includes rental agreement with Ballet Caravan |
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 to 2/10, 29/1, 31/1 |
1944
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Notebooks, correspondence, and technical specs for
Washington performances |
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Note: Includes correspondence, sketches, and other records for
October premiere of Appalachian spring at Library of Congress
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BOX-FOLDER 2/11-18, 31/2 |
1945
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Contractual, legal, and other correspondence, including
dispute with Austin Wilder management; equipment lists; cue sheets; diagrams and sketches;
production notebooks; programs and flyers |
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Note: Several production documents from the 1944 National
Theatre performances were included among 1945 production items |
BOX-FOLDER 3/1-10 |
1946
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Production documents for touring schedule with notes on
verso; financial documents |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1946
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Ground plan and light plot for tour |
BOX-FOLDER 3/11-16 |
1947
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Contracts; correspondence; lists for touring and stage
management; detailed production notes for all Graham ballets performed in 1947 |
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Note: Includes notes on Erick Hawkins's Stephen Acrobat and John Brown
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BOX-FOLDER 3/17-22 |
1948
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Production records for season at Maxine Elliott Theatre
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BOX-FOLDER 3/23 to 4/5 |
1949
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Itinerary and theater specs for 1949 tour; production
documents for stage management of Graham company |
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Note: Includes several documents for New York City Ballet and
New York City Dance Theatre |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1949
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Light plot and tormenter plan and board hook-up for road
tour |
BOX-FOLDER 4/6-21, 29/2, 31/3 |
1950
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Production records for 46th Street Theatre season, Carnegie
Hall performances, and a small amount on the 1950 European tour |
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Note: Includes records for Graham's Gospel of Eve and Judith , and Hawkins choreographies
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1950
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Light and hanging plot for 46th Street Theatre |
BOX-FOLDER 4/22-24 |
1951
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Records for Louisville and Denver performances and bus tour
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BOX-FOLDER 5/1-5, 31/4 |
1952
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Records for performances at Juilliard |
BOX-FOLDER 5/6-23, 29/3, 30/1 |
1953
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Production records for performances of the American Dance
Festival at the Alvin Theatre; some documentation of performances at Juilliard, YMHA, and
Baltimore |
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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
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Light plots and elevation for American Dance Festival, Alvin
Theatre |
BOX-FOLDER 6/1-21, 29/4, 31/5 |
1955
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Production records for American Dance Festival at ANTA;
preparations for Graham company's first U.S. State Department-sponsored tour abroad in
1955-1956 |
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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
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Production records for performances at Adelphi Theatre;
"transposition" of earlier technical specs to 1958 charts |
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Note: Includes documentation for premiere of Clytemnestra
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1958
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Light plots and elevations for Adelphi Theatre |
BOX-FOLDER 7/12-15 |
1960
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Production specs for season at 54th Street Theatre |
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Note: Includes preparations for new work Alcestis
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BOX-FOLDER 7/16 |
1961
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1961
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Ground plan and elevations for One More
Gaudy Night; revised light plot and elevation |
BOX-FOLDER 7/17-23 |
1962
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BOX-FOLDER 8/1-9 |
1963
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Production records for performances at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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BOX-FOLDER 8/10 |
1964
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Newspaper photo clipping of Graham dancer Mary Hinkson in
group of four artists |
BOX-FOLDER 8/11-15 |
1965
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Technical documents for performances at 54th Street Theatre
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1965
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Light plot for 54th Street Theatre |
BOX-FOLDER 8/16 |
1966-1968
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Flame proofing documentation |
BOX-FOLDER 8/17-18 |
1967
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Production records for performances at Hellinger Theatre |
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Note: See also production documents in 1963, annotated for 1967
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BOX-FOLDER 8/19-23 |
1968
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Production records for performances at George Abbott Theatre
and Brooklyn Academy of Music |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1968
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Revised light plot for Brooklyn Academy of Music |
BOX-FOLDER 8/24-25 |
1969
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BOX-FOLDER 8/26 |
1972-1979
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Flame proofing documentation |
BOX-FOLDER 8/27-31 |
1973
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Records of May performances at the Alvin Theatre |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1973
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Light and hanging plots for Alvin Theatre |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1973
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Stage platform diagrams |
BOX-FOLDER 8/32-35 |
1974
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Records of performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre and
Asia tour specs |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1974
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Light and hanging plots for Mark Hellinger Theatre and
tour |
BOX-FOLDER 9/1-12, 29/5 |
1975
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Production files for gala benefit and New York and tour
performances |
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Note: Includes Nureyev agreement and production records for
premiere of Lucifer, choreographed for him |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1975
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Electric and hanging plot for tour |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1975
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Poster for Martha Graham Dance Company, Mark Hellinger
Theatre |
BOX-FOLDER 9/13-20 |
1976
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Production and budget records for European tour, Kennedy
Center and Cincinnati performances, and Mexico |
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Note: Also includes preliminary estimates for 1977 operations
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1976
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Light and hanging plots for Cincinnati Music Hall and John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1976
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Light and hanging plot for European tour |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1976-1977
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Stage plans for Benito Juárez Theatre, Mexico |
BOX-FOLDER 9/21 to 11/25, 30/2-7 |
1977
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Repertory binder (with 1980 additions); Calder gala and Lunt
Fontanne records, including contracts |
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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
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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
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Production records for Metropolitan Opera House, Ravinia
Festival, and domestic tour performances |
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Note: Includes lighting and stage manager notebooks |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/9 |
1978
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Light plot for fall road tour |
MAPCASE-DRAWER 7/8 |
1978
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Plan and elevations for O Thou Desire
Who Art About to Sing
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BOX-FOLDER 16/4-48 |
1978-1979?
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Retrospective binder of positive and negative prints of
stage plans, designs, and crate boxing |
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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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