Souvenir programs of ballet, dance, and theatrical productions, ca. 1924-1998.

Froman, Jane, 1907-1980

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Ellen Jane Froman, American actress and singer, was born on 10 November 1907 in St. Louis, Missouri. Froman graduated in 1926 from Christian College, in Columbia, Missouri with an associate degree in French and then attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Froman did not graduate but went to Cincinnati to study voice at the Conservatory of Music from 1928 to 1930. Before graduation Froman broke into radio singing and doing commercials. Her first big break came when she got a job...

Graham, Martha, 1894-1991

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Martha Graham, a pioneer in the establishment of American modern dance, was one of the principal choreographers of the twentieth century. Her work, which spanned more than seven decades, resulted in the development of a movement technique and a body of 180 choreographic works. Known also for her innovative collaborations, Graham worked with sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who created over thirty-five designs for Graham works; lighting designer Jean Rosenthal; costume designer Halston; and many composers...

Tallchief, Maria, 1925-2013

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Maria Tallchief was born Berry Marie Tall Chief on January 24, 1925 to Alex Tall Chief and Ruth Porter Tall Chief. Later she changed the spelling of her last name to Tallchief. She grew up in Fairfax, Oklahoma on the Osage Indian reservation until the family moved to Los Angeles in 1930. The family also included a sister Marjorie (also a ballerina who danced mostly in Europe) and a brother, Jerry. Her early life consisted of both piano and dance lessons, and Maria later chose between ballet and ...

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

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The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as current general manager (2021). As of 2018, the company's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met was founded in 1883 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, and debuted the same year in...

Durante, Jimmy, 1893-1980

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Katherine Dunham Company

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The Katherine Dunham Company was an African American modern dance troupe founded by Katherine Dunham to serve her unique artistic vision. The company would go through several iterations involving various changes of name and personnel over the course of its more than twenty years of existence (approximately 1937-1960). In 1930, while still a student at the University of Chicago, Dunham formed Ballet Nègre, one of the first black ballet companies in the United States. The company would give its fi...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) is a modern dance company based in New York City. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 32 dancers, led by artistic director Robert Battle and associate artistic director Matthew Rushing. Alvin Ailey and a group of young Black modern dancers first performed at New York's 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association (92nd Street Y), under the name Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT), in March 1958. A...

Boston Ballet

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The Boston Ballet is an American professional classical ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, and Sydney Leonard, is the first professional repertory ballet company in New England....

Mumaw, Barton, 1912-2001

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Barton Mumaw (1912-2001) was a dancer and member of Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers....

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972

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In 1915 they founded the first Denishawn school in Los Angeles with the intent of providing students with a diversified dance education. They believed that a dancer should learn all styles of dance rather than concentrating on one form; therefore, they offered classes in ballet, modern, ethnic, and creative dance. Within a few years Shawn and Miss St. Denis had established Denishawn schools throughout the United States. They built up an extensive repertory of spiritual, ethnic, character, and “m...

Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977

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Ethel Waters (born October 31, 1896, Chester, Pennsylvania–d. September 1, 1977, Chatsworth, California) was a musician and actress. She got her start in the 1920s in Baltimore, Maryland and also toured on the black vaudeville circuit. She began her singing career in Atlanta and then Harlem in the 1920s. She starred in many films and was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show and the first African-Am...

Petina, Irra, 1908-2000

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Humphrey-Weidman Company, dance company.

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Jack Mitchell

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Major Felten.

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Kenn Duncan

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Philharmonic Auditorium

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Raymond King.

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Symphony Hall

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Jean Cocteau

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Gear, Luella

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Marcel Vertes.

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Frank Thompson

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Suzenne Farrell

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Raymond Breinin

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Broadhurst Theatre

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Karen Van Ryn.

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Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers, dance company.

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Patricia Miller

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American ballet theatre

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The American Ballet Theatre is an American ballet company founded by Oliver Smith and Lucia Chase in 1940. From the guide to the American Ballet Theatre Programs, 1940-1979, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Ballet Theatre, an outgrowth of the Mordkin Ballet which started in 1937 as an outlet for the students from Mikhail Mordkin's school, was inaugarated with Richard Pleasant as director in the fall of 1939. Its stated goal was to ...

N.Y. City Center

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Sydney Butchkes

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Stephen Greene.

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Ailey, Alvin, 1931-1989

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Alvin Ailey (b. Jan. 5, 1931, Rogers, TX–d. Dec. 1, 1989, New York, NY) was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. He is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th-century concert dance. In 1977, Ailey was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1988. In 2014, President Barack Obama selected Ailey to be a posthumous recip...

Ballets: U.S.A.

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Dance Theatre of Harlem, dance company.

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Walter Strate.

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Brooks, Lawrence

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Martin Beck Theatre

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Marta Eggerth.

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American Ballet Theatre, ballet company.

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Rudolf Nureyev

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Loring, Eugene, 1911-1982

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Eugene Loring was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. From the description of Eugene Loring collection, ca. 1938-1980. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517370 Dancer, choreographer. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Loring : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574179 Eugene Loring, influential American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, is best ...

Angus McBean

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New York State Theatre

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James Canfield

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Bolger, Ray

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Nicholas Geordiadis.

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Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers

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Drewes?

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John Lear

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Ralph Dumke.

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MacWatters, Virginia, 1912-2005

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Soprano Virginia MacWatters was known not only for her impressive operatic career during which she performed in opera houses throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, but also for her dedication to teaching. In 1957 she joined the voice faculty of the Indiana University School of Music where she remained until her retirement in 1982. She was awarded the prestigious the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for excellence in teaching in 1979. From the description of Vi...

Aeolian Hall

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Robert O'Hearn

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Zorina, Vera, 1917-2003

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Vera Zorina (1917-2003) was a ballet dancer, a movie and musical theater actress, a choreographer, and an opera director. She was born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin on January 2, 1917 to a German father, Frederick Hartwig, and Norwegian mother, Bille Hartwig (née Abigael Johanne Wimpelmann). In 1933 she joined Col. W. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo where her stage name was changed to Vera Zorina. She was married to George Balanchine from 1938 to 1946. After divorcing him she married com...

King, Dennis

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George Balanchine

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Chicago Opera Ballet, ballet company

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City Center of Music and Drama.

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Georges Wakhevitch

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Gerald Arpino's

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Steven Caras

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Nicolai Remisoff

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Constantin Aladjalov.

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Keith Andes

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José Limón Dance Company, dance company.

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Ted Shawn

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William Blake

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Schoop, Trudi, choreographer.

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William, Thomas

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Thomas William Halligan is an Alaskan. He has written a number of books including children's stories, poetry, and novels under the pen name Thomas William. His published works include Brien, Prince Donkey: A Christmas Story, The Denali Christmas, Come See, Come Saw: An Alaskan Saga, Advancing Backward, and Retreating Forward. From the description of Papers, 1972-1994. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat record id: 60564056 Thomas William was a Congregational minister and ...

Santo Loquasto

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Denise Jackson

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Nicholas Georgiadis.

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Helena Bliss.

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Ballet Theatre

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Major Felton

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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

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Peter Docherty

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Gustave Dore

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Shubert Theatre

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Forty-sixth Street Theatre

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Oliver Smith

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New Century Theatre

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Thomas Benrimo.

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Hansen, ...

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Marc Chagall.

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Rolf Gerard.

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Neil Simon Theatre

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Bernard Lamotte.

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Eugene Berman

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Thomas Bouchard.

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Tamara Geva.

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St.Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968

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Ruth St. Denis was an American dancer and dance teacher. From the description of Postcard, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007242 Dancer and faculty member. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1926-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155538190 Ruth St. Denis was one of the pioneers of modern dance. She first gained attention dancing with David Belasco's company, an experience which exposed her to European and Asian tradition...

Martha Graham Dance Company

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The Martha Graham Dance Company has remained a leader in the development of contemporary dance since its founding in 1926. Its first headquarters consisted of a small dance studio on Broadway. The center later moved to a two story building at 316 East 63rd Street, New York. The Company has performed in over 50 countries, as well as giving lectures and performances throughout the United States. The Martha Graham Dance Company has nurtured many of the leading choreographers and dancer...

Imperial Theatre

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American Ballet Theatre's

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Doretta Morrow.

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Jeanne Renucci

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Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, dance company.

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Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999

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Paul Cadmus was an "American artist who created paintings, drawings, and prints in a figurative, near-illustrational style during a career that spanned some 70 years. Cadmus decided upon a career in art when he was still a young boy and enrolled in art classes at New York City's National Academy of Design (now the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts) when he was 15. He studied there until 1926 and at the Art Students League for the following two years and then went to work at an adve...

John Lindquist.

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Forty-Fourth Street Theatre

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Denishawn Dancers, dance company.

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Ruth St. Denis.

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Gaxton, William

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Ballet Theatre, ballet company.

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Jan Kiepura

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Joffrey Ballet, ballet company

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Majestic Theatre

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Bourne, Matthew, 1960-....

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Lynes, George Platt

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Donn Matus

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Victor Moore.

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Isadora Duncan Dancers, dance company.

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Abraham Walkowitz

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Segal, Vivienne

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New York City Ballet, ballet company.

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Andre Delfau.

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Page, Ruth

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Ruth Page, American dancer, choreographer, and director of ballet companies, was born in 1899, the daughter of a physician in Indiana. Her dance studies began with local teachers in Indianapolis. Like many a young girl, she was inspired by seeing Anna Pavlova perform, and actually did perform with the legendary dancer's troupe during a tour to South America in 1918. Her training continued in Chicago with Adolph Bolm who created The Birthday of the Infanta for her, dancing the role with Bolm's Ba...

Jerome Robbins'

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Rigaud, George

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Balanchine, George

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Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Hawkins, Erick, choreographer.

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John Howell

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Martha Swope

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Rose O'Neill?

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The Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association.

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Nicholas Magallanes

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Peter Martins

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