Moore, Lillian.

Lillian Moore (1911-1967) was an American dancer, writer, teacher, and dance historian.

From the guide to the Lillian Moore correspondence, ca. 1936-1967, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.)

Lillian Moore, 1911-1967, was a dancer as well as a teacher, writer, and scholar. She studied ballet under George Balanchine and Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine and modern dance under Charles Weidman. When Ms. Moore retired as a dancer in 1954, she began to teach and intensified her research into the history of dance in the United States. She was a frequent contributor to The Dancing Times, as well as Dance Magazine and other dance journals. Her publications include Artists of the Dance (1938); the article, “Ballet,” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as the “Dance-Ballet” section in Britannica's Book of the Year (1950-1966); Bournonville and Ballet Technique with Erik Bruhn (1961); Bournonville's London Spring (1965); the Duport Mystery (1960); and Prints on Pushcarts: the Dance Lithographs of Currier & Ives (1962).

From the guide to the Lillian Moore dance research files, 18th CENTURY, 19th CENTURY, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.)

Lillian Moore, 1911-1967, was a dancer as well as a teacher and writer. She studied ballet under George Balanchine, Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine and others; and studied modern dance under Charles Weidman. She retired as a dancer in 1954 and then began to teach. Some of her writings include the article, “Ballet,” in the Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as the “Dance -- Ballet” section in Britannica's, Book of the Year (1950 to date). This collection, a gift of Lillian Moore, is primarily compiled or manuscripts, articles and clippings of her writings and programs, letters, pamphlets and lists of other dancers and dance companies, that Lillian Moore had collected during her career.

These collected items, as well as her written works (done as a result of her research), seem to sum up the era of dance from the late 1800's through the 1960's and the impact it had on America as well as Europe.

From the guide to the Lillian Moore papers, 1947-1964, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.)