Richard Stuart papers 1923-1981

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Richard Stuart papers 1923-1981

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/18479

The collection documents adagio and ballroom dancers from the 1920s to the 1970s. This small collection is mostly comprised of diaries and photographs. There are two diaries of Richard Stuart's early career as an adagio dancer in New York City during the 1920s. The photographs are adagio and ballroom dancers with some minor related ephemera. This collection was to be a foundation for a book on dancing couples, never completed, by Richard Stuart and writer/dancer Marian Horosko.

.84 linear feet; 2 boxes

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Stuart, Richard

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Richard Stuart was born Richard Stuart Mackall in Fairmont, West Virginia in 1901. Stuart, an adagio dancer, danced professionally from the 1920s to the late 1950s. A couple's dancer, he first partnered with Claire Lea, his first wife, from 1927 to the mid 1930s. They were professionally know as "Stuart and Lea." His second partner, Flora Ossana, also worked professionally under the name "Stuart and Lea" because of the public name recognition. After their marriage in 1944, the coupl...