Helen Tamiris collection ca. 1939-1966

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Helen Tamiris collection ca. 1939-1966

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19643

The Collection comprises holographs, typescripts, and memorabilia, which mostly reflect choreographic work in the musical comedy and concert dance fields. The career of her husband, , and the development of their company, the Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company, are also represented. Helen Tamiris Tamiris' Daniel Nagrin

222 folders (ca. 1000 items

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6310812

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Tamiris, Helen, 1905-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6348n75 (person)

Dancer, choreographer. Real name, Helen Becker. From the description of [Programs and announcements], 1928-1965. 1928-1965 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 777009427 (written by Walter Terry) Helen Tamiris, one of the major pioneers in the development of modern dance in America and one of Broadway's best known choreographers, was born Helen Becker in 1905 in New York City's Lower East Side. The urge to dance was there from the start, bu...

Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6188r58 (corporateBody)

Helen Tamiris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sp356r (person)

Daniel Nagrin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68t7pqx (person)

Nagrin, Daniel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w380s8 (person)

Nagrin was born May 22, 1917 in NYC; he received his early basic dance training and performance experience with the Experimental Dance Unit, under Bill Matons, with classes taught by Charles Weidman and the Dance Unit directed by Anna Sokolow; he also studied with Elizabeth Anderson-Ivantzova, Edward Caton, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Helen Tamiris; as an American modern and theatrical dancer and choreographer he performed in Façade--expositione Italiana (1938), Liberty song (1942), Up in Ce...