Orchesis Record 1914-1995

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Orchesis Record 1914-1995

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Financial and membership records, production files, notes, programs, scrapbooks and photographs, chiefly of dance performances at Washington State University. Significant figures include Alice Gates and Wilhelmina Sarai-Clark.

15 containers.; 7.5 linear feet of shelf space.

eng,

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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Orchesis

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Orchesis (from the Greek, "to dance") was founded at Washington State College in 1923. Leota Scott, then a senior at WSU and a temporary dance instructor, had joined national Orchesis the year before while she was in Wisconsin studying under Margaret H. Doubler. The group began when she returned to WSU. At first, Orchesis was little more than an informal gathering of female dance students interested in learning and practicing the concepts of modern interpretive dance. It became more...

Gates, Alice

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Sarai-Clark, Wilhelmina

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