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BOX 1- 6 REEL 1-5 |
Labanotation, 1947-1981
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The Labanotation series consists of dance scores written in Labanotation.
Hungarian-born dancer and choreographer Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958) created
the system and introduced it in Kinetographie
Laban, which he published in 1928. Labanotation uses symbols
written on a vertical staff to represent different aspects of a specific
movement: body part, direction, level, duration, and physical and emotional
dynamics. The Dance Notation Bureau in New York City, which Eve Gentry and
Ann Hutchinson Guest founded in 1940, holds the largest collection of dance
scores written in Labanotation.
The items in this series document the choreographed works of George
Balanchine, Ray Cook, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey, Kurt Jooss, Sophie Maslow,
Léonide Massine, and Antony Tudor. The scores were written by professional
dance notators, including Ray Cook, Els Grelinger, Airi Hynninen, Ann
Hutchinson Guest, Jane Marriett, and Muriel Topaz, among others. Hanya
Holm’s dances from the hit Broadway musical My Fair
Lady (1956), are especially noteworthy, along with Agnes de
Mille’s Fall River Legend, (1975), which she
choreographed for renowned Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Unlike the other
works in the series, Ray Cook’s Theme and
Variations (1981) was a pedagogical work intended as an
introduction to Labanotation. |
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A microfilm edition of select works are available on five reels that are shelved as Microfilm 2021/02436 (Mus). To promote preservation of the originals, researchers
are required to consult the microfilm edition.
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Arranged alphabetically by choreographer’s last name and therein by title of
the dance work. |
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Balanchine, George
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BOX-FOLDER 1/1 |
Allegro Brilliante, 1977
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Notator: Richard Holden |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106982; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/2 REEL 2 |
Bourrée Fantasque, 1949?
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Synopsis of thematic content, 1
page |
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Notator: Ann Hutchinson Guest with Els
Grelinger |
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Copyright number and date: Du 35212;
1953 |
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Also available as Microfilm 2021/02436 (Mus). Made from NYPL copy |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/3 REEL 3 |
Symphonie Concertante, 1947?
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Synopsis of thematic content, 1
page |
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Notator: Ann Hutchinson with Els
Grelinger |
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Copyright number and date: Du 35213;
1953 |
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Also available as Microfilm 2021/02436 (Mus). Made from NYPL copy |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/4 REEL 4 |
Symphony in C, 1948
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Synopsis of thematic content, 1
page |
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Notator: Ann Hutchinson with Els
Grelinger |
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Copyright number and date: Du 35214;
1953 |
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Also available as Microfilm 2021/02436 (Mus). Made from NYPL copy |
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Cook, Ray |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/5 |
Theme and Variations, 1981
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Two printed copies |
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Notator: Ray Cook |
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Copyright number and date: PA 130-652;
1981 November 2 |
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De Mille, Agnes |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/6-8 |
Fall River Legend, 1975
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Notator: Jane Marriett |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106977; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 5/1-2 |
Rodeo, 1976
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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo |
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Notator: Jane Marriett |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106986; 1977
December 30 |
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Holm, Hanya |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/9 REEL 1 |
My
Fair Lady dances, 1956?
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Description, 2 pages |
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Notator: Els Grelinger |
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Copyright number and date: Du 45865; 1957
October 16 |
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Also available as Microfilm 2021/02436 (Mus) |
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Humphrey, Doris |
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REEL 5 |
Day on Earth, 1963
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Notator: Muriel Topaz |
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Copyright number and date: Du 58898; 1963
November 12 |
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Available as Microfilm 2021/02436 (Mus) |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/10 |
Night Spell, 1974
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Notator: Jane Marriett |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106985; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/11 |
Ritmo Jondo, 1976
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Notator: Ray Cook |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106984; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/1-2 |
With My Red Fires, 1965
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Notator: Muriel Topaz |
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Copyright number and date: DP 9443; 1975
May 12 |
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Jooss, Kurt |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/3 |
A
Ball in Old Vienna, 1976
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Notator: Jane Marriett |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106983; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 6/1 |
The Big City, 1974
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Notator: Airi Hynninen |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106980; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/4 |
The Green Table, 1977
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Notator: Muriel Topaz, Charlotte
Wile |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106969; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/5 |
Pavane on the Death of an Infanta, 1976
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Notator: Charlotte Wile |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106971; 1977
December 30 |
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Maslow, Sophie |
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BOX-FOLDER 2/6-7 |
Folksay, 1972
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Notator: K. Wright Dunkley |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106978; 1977
December 30 |
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Massine, Léonide
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BOX-FOLDER 3/1-2 |
Le
Beau Danube, 1971
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Notator: Ann Hutchinson Guest, assisted by
Jocelyne Asselbourg and Conrad van der Wetering |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106967; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/3 |
Gaité Parisiene, 1974
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Notator: Airi Hynninen |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106979; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/4 |
Parade, 1974
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Notator: Jocelyne Asselbourg |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106974; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 3/5-6 |
Pulcinella, 1974
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Notator: Lynne Weber |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106972; 1977
December 30 |
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Tudor, Antony |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/1 |
Cereus, 1972
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Notator: Muriel Topaz |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106973; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/2 |
Continuo, 1976
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Notator: Muriel Topaz |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106879; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/3-4 |
Jardin aux Lilas, 1967
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Notator: Muriel Topaz |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106968; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/5 |
The Leaves Are Fading, 1975
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Notator: Airi Hynninen |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106976; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/6-7 |
Offenbach in the Underworld, 1975
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Notator: Lynne Weber |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106975; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX-FOLDER 4/8 |
Soirée Musicale, 1975
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Notator: Ann Hutchinson, 1962; revised by
Airi Hynninen, Muriel Topaz and Rochelle Zide, 1975 |
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Copyright number and date: Du 106981; 1977
December 30 |
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BOX 5 |
Other Dance Notation, 1893
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The Other Dance Notation series includes a 10-page typed manuscript with
hand-written corrections of Ida Craddock’s Danse du ventre [Dance of
the Abdomen] (1893). Describing the movement, Craddock explains how Egyptian
belly dancing has instructional value for nineteenth-century marriage. |
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Arranged alphabetically by author and and therein by title of work. |
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Craddock, Ida C.
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BOX-FOLDER 5/3 |
Danse du ventre
[Dance of the Abdomen] as performed in the Cairo Street Theatre,
Midway Plaisance, Chicago, 1893
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Typed manuscript with corrections, ten
pages |
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Copyright date: 1893 October 27 |
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Note: No
Copyright Office registration number |
