Marian Hannah Winter papers

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Marian Hannah Winter papers

1922-1983

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Correspondence, mostly circa 1967-1981; diaries from 1930-1932; photographs; research notes, photocopies, and clippings; book catalogs; books, some inscribed by the authors; and programs, periodicals, and other printed material. Includes extensive correspondence with Friderica Derra de Moroda and the Pitman publishing house.

15.2 linear feet

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Derra de Moroda, Friderica, 1897-1978

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Friderica Derra de Moroda (2 June 1897 – 19 June 1978) was a British dancer, choreographer and dance teacher of Austrian-Hungarian origin. Born in Bratislava, Kingdom of Hungary, she the daughter of a Greek writer and a Hungarian art historian. The family moved to Munich after the death of her father. After a ballet education, she made her debut at the age of 14 on 22 February 1912 as a freelance dancer in the Vienna Secession. In 1914, she went to England and founded her first dance school in L...

Winter, Marian Hannah, 1910-1981

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Marian Hannah Summer (1910 – 15 December 1981) was an American dance historian. In the 1940s, dance historian Lincoln Kirstein solicited Winter to write for Dance Index, a magazine he headed. In contrast to Kirstein's analytical or polemical approach to history, Winter was more of an archivist. One of Summer's most influential works is "Juba and American Minstrelsy", published in 1947. The article sketches the life of Master Juba, a black American dancer active in the mid-19th century. Winter ar...