Ruth Clark Lert Dance Library and Archive, 1831-1994 (bulk 1950-1980)

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Ruth Clark Lert Dance Library and Archive, 1831-1994 (bulk 1950-1980)

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The Ruth Clark Lert Archive is a multimedia collection which documents dance history inthe twentieth century, primarily in the United States. Formats in the collection include:audio recordings, video recordings, clippings, printed items, stamps, photographs,posters, catalogues, broadsides, teaching materials, and theses and dissertations. RuthClark Lert, a dance historian, critic and teacher, collected the materials over fiftyyears, and the collection reflects both her broad interest in dance and her specialinterests in dance therapy, movement for the handicapped, German dancers HaraldKreutzberg and Mary Wigman, world dance, and dance in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Number of containers: 65 document boxes, 3 shoe boxes, 8 record cartons, 10 flat boxes and 12 oversized folders; Linear feet: 57;

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University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973

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Mary Wigman, German modern dancer and choreographer, was born Mary Wiegmann, November 13, 1886 in Hanover. She trained first with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Hellerau and Dresden and later with Rudolf von Laban in Anscona, Switzerland and in Munich. Her debut as a concert dancer and choreographer occurred in 1919. Successful performances encouraged her to open her own school in Dresden, where among her first students were Yvonne Georgi, Gert Palucca, and Harald Kreutzberg. By 1925, her students inc...

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Lert, Ruth Clark, 1915-1997,

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Ruth Clark Lert was a dance teacher, historian, critic, and photographer who collected dance literature and mememorabilia during her extensive career. She was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915. She graduated from the Steffi Nossen School of Dance in 1933. In the 1930s and 1940s, she studied under a number of noted dancers and choreographers, including Eugene Loring, Ruth St. Denis, and Juana de Laban. She taught at Loring's American School of Dance, the University of Dayto...