Selma Jeanne Cohen papers relating to teaching/critical writing projects 1965-1973

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Selma Jeanne Cohen papers relating to teaching/critical writing projects, 1965-1973

Selma Jeanne Cohen papers relating to teaching/critical writing projects 1965-1973

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19705

Selma Jeanne Cohen Cohen is an author, editor, lecturer, and teacher, and the records of several of her teaching projects comprise the bulk of this collection. From 1965-1969, at the Connecticut College School of Dance, (which became the American Dance Festival in 1969), she taught or lectured on dance history or writing on dance, classes which were open to all students at the summer school. The Critics' Conferences, 1970-1972, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and held during the Connecticut College - American Dance Festivals, were for a select group of professional critics, to train them in “the skills of describing and evaluating dance.” The National Critics Institutes were sponsored by the O'Neill Foundation, to provide “intensive on-the-job training for young critics,” and taught there during the summers of 1969, 1971 and 1972.

3 document boxes (96 folders

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.