Bella Malinka papers 1950-1993

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Bella Malinka papers 1950-1993

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19780

This collection documents the teaching career of Bella Malinka, dance educator, choreographer and dancer, who taught at New York’s School of the Performing Arts from 1949 to 1981.

3 linear feet; 5 boxes

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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High School of Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.)

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Joel, Lydia

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Lydia Joel was born Lydia Tarnower on July 27, 1914 in New York City. Her father Abraham Tarnower, a Russian Jew, immigrated to New York in 1906 from Warsaw, Poland. Her mother was the former Helen Mandel. Joel graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in English. She also attended summer sessions at Cornell University. Lydia Joel studied ballet at the School of American Ballet, as well as studying modern dance with Harald Kreutzberg and Hanya Holm. At ...

D'Amboise, Charlotte

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Malinka, Bella

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Educator, choreographer, and dancer Bella Malinka was born in the United States ca.1923. Little is known of her early life. She graduated from high school in 1940. Malinka studied ballet with Anton Dolin, Leon Danelian, Bronislava Nijinska, and Edward Caton, among others. She also studied modern dance, theater dance, and ethnic dance with such dance notables as Hanya Holm, Agnes De Mille, Bhupesh Guha, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and Frederico Rey. As a d...