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BOX 1-2 |
Research Files, 1932-1991
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This series holds material collected or created by Arkin in the process of
researching Bronislava Nijinska's involvement with the Polish Ballet. It includes
articles, clippings, notes, photographs, programs, prints, and slides. Among
Arkin's notes are interviews she conducted with former Polish Ballet dancer Nina
Youshkevitch. Original programs of the Polish Ballet may have been given to Arkin
by Irina Nijinska or Irina's husband, Gibbs S. Raetz. |
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Arranged alphabetically by material type or subject. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/1 |
Clippings, 1989-1991
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BOX-FOLDER 2/1-6 |
Clippings and scrapbook pages,
1937-1990 and
undated
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Photocopies |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/2 |
Koegler, Horst. "In the Shadows
of the Swastika," 1974 and
undated
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Photocopy; page of notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/3-4 |
Miscellaneous research notes,
1930-1991 and
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 1/5 |
Notebook, 1989 and undated
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BOX-FOLDER 1/6 |
Notepad, 1992 and undated
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Includes: Interview
with Nina Youshkevitch |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/7 |
Photographs,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 1/8 |
Prints of Polish national
dances, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 2/7 |
Programs (French), 1932, 1937
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BOX-FOLDER 1/9 |
Programs (German), 1937-1938
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BOX-FOLDER 2/7 |
Program (Polish), 1937
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Research Notes binder |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/11 |
The Choreographies and
Interviews, 1936-1938,
1989
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BOX-FOLDER 1/13 |
Composers, Music and
Background Information on 20th century Art, 1939-1991
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BOX-FOLDER 1/10 |
Outline and Historical
Background, 1937-1988
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BOX-FOLDER 1/12 |
Paris Tour and German Tour,
1938-1989
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BOX-FOLDER 1/14 |
Slides, 1989
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BOX-FOLDER 1/15 |
Smith, Albert. "The Natural
History of the Ballet Girl," undated
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Photocopy |
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BOX 1 |
Writings, 1989-1995
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This series consists of three folders holding materials created by Arkin,
including drafts of her article on Nijinska, proposals for a paper on folk dance,
and documentation for a research grant proposal. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title or subject. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/16 |
"Bronislava Nijinska and the
Polish Ballet, 1937-1938: Missing Chapter of the Legacy," 1991
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BOX-FOLDER 1/17 |
Proposals on folk dance, 1994-1995
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Note: Written with
Marian Smith |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/18 |
Summer research grant proposal,
1989
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BOX 1 |
Correspondence, 1989-1993, 1999
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This series contains letters written to and from Arkin while she researched
Bronislava Nijinska's Polish Ballet. Correspondents include Nijinska's daughter
and son-in-law, Irina and Gibbs S. Raetz, as well as two dancers from the Polish
Ballet company, Vladimir Dokoudovsky and Nina Youshkevitch. Inquiries to Janet
Rowson Davis, the British Broadcasting Corporation, National Film Archive, and
several Polish organizations are further evidence of Arkin's research. Letters
from the Society of Authors concern a permissions request to reprint John
Masefield's poem "To the Dancers in the Polish Ballet." |
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Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. |
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BOX-FOLDER 1/19 |
British Broadcasting
Corporation, 1990
March
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BOX-FOLDER 1/20 |
Davis, Janet Rowson, 1990
September-October
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BOX-FOLDER 1/21 |
Dokoudovsky, Vladimir, 1989
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BOX-FOLDER 1/22 |
Miscellaneous Polish
institutions, 1989
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BOX-FOLDER 1/23 |
National Film Archive (Great
Britain), 1990
March
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BOX-FOLDER 1/24 |
Nijinska, Irina, 1989 October
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BOX-FOLDER 1/25 |
Raetz, Gibbs S., 1989, 1999
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BOX-FOLDER 1/26 |
Society of Authors (Great
Britain), 1992
August-September
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BOX-FOLDER 1/27 |
Youshkevitch, Nina, 1992, 1993
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