Cornish School of Allied Arts records 1893-1989

Cornish School of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.) Dance Department

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Cornish School of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.)

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Founded in 1914 by Nellie C. Cornish as the Cornish School of Music, the Cornish School of Allied Arts quickly became established as the first school in the western United States to offer comprehensive training in all of the arts. Nellie Cornish sought to educate artists through exposure to all art forms and within the first few years of the school's existence she had expanded the curriculum to offer courses in dance, visual arts, theater and design. She recruited a wide...

Cornish School of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.). Registrar.

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Browne, Ellen Van Volkenburg,  1882-

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Tobey, Mark (Mark T.)

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Cornish Institute of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.)

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Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, Wash.)

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Irvin, Karen, 1910?-1999.

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Karen Irvin headed the dance department at Cornish School of the Allied Arts for 27 years and founded the Cornish Ballet. She was born in Hastings, Penn., ca. 1910 and moved to Seattle at age eight. Irvin joined the Cornish faculty in 1945 and became the head of the dance department in 1952. She also gave dance lessons in Mt. Vernon and Sedro-Wooley, Washington, in the 1940s. Karen Irvin died March 2, 1999, at the age of 89. From the guide to the Karen Irvin Papers, 1945-1991, (Unive...

Bird, Bonnie

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Music and Art Foundation (Seattle, Wash.)

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Cornish, Nellie Centennial, 1876-1956

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