Dance at St. Mark's, 1924-1982.

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Dance at St. Mark's, 1924-1982.

Most of collection documents the project Danspace, founded in 1976 by Larry Fagin to provide established and beginning dancers and choreographers the opportunity for continued growth and development through availability of performance space free of commercial pressures and rental fees. Documentation includes programs, reviews and other articles about the project, and reports. Also, booklet, articles, and correspondence prohibiting innovative and controversial services accompanied by dance held at St. Mark's Church under the jurisdiction of rector William Guthrie, 1920s.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.)

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Material pertaining to the fire at St. Mark's Church which destroyed the interior of the edifice. From the description of St. Mark's fire, July 27, 1978 with restoration and fund raising documentation, 1978-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155529142 Episcopal church in New York City, E. 10th St. and 2nd Ave. From the description of Records, 1793-1937. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758295 Protestant Episcopal church in ...

Fagin, Larry

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Larry Fagin was born in 1939. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English Literature, and did graduate work at the Gutenberg Institute in Mainz, Germany . From 1971-1976 he was co-director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City, and he edited a poetry magazine, Adventures in Poetry, during this time. He founded the Danspace project and directed Danspace from 1975-1980. He has been a faculty member at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, since 1975 and dir...

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.). Danspace.

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Guthrie, William Norman, 1868-1944

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William Norman Guthrie, 1868-1944, an Episcopalian clergyman, was born in Dundee, Scotland, on March 4, 1868. He was the son of William Eugene Guthrie and Frances Sylva d'Arusmont. His maternal grandmother was Frances (Fanny) Wright, an ardent abolitionist and feminist. Guthrie received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1889 and a Master of Arts degree in 1891, both from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He also received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University...