Bessie Schönberg Papers, 1932-1997 and undated.

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Bessie Schönberg Papers, 1932-1997 and undated.

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The collection includes Bessie Schönberg's personal documents, professional and personal correspondence, information on her teaching, directing, performing, lecturing, and writing, appointment books, financial and medical papers, interviews, writing by others, and print materials collected by Schönberg. There is extensive personal correspondence with her husband Dimitry Varley and Schönberg's family. Includes papers and correspondence with dance institutions with which she had long or formative experience including the Bennington College School of the Dance, Connecticut College School of Dance/American Dance Festival, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancing in the Streets, Jacob's Pillow, and The Yard.

33.5 linear ft. (30 boxes)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 6906768

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Jacob's Pillow

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Jacob's Pillow is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization is known for the oldest internationally acclaimed Summer dance festival in the United States. The facility also includes a professional school and extensive archives as well as year-round community programs. The facility itself was listed as a National Historic Landmark District in 2003. The site of Jacob's Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts was originally settled ...

Bennington College (Bennington, Vt.). School of the Dance, 1934-1942.

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Yard (Chilmark, Mass.)

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American Dance Festival

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Modern dance festival founded in 1934 in Bennington, Vermont. From the description of Records, 1977-1995 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36109678 The American Dance Festival is a non-profit organization committed to serving the needs of dance, dancers, choreographers, and professionals in dance-related fields. It presents a six and a half week summer festival of modern dance performances and educational programs, hosts community outreach activities, a...

Dance Theatre of Harlem

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The Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded by Arthur Mitchell in 1969. From the description of News clippings, 1969-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155475988 Collecting area: Materials relating to the history of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Will also accept other dance history materials. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502455 ...

Varley, Dimitry.

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Connecticut College. School of Dance.

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Dance Theater Workshop

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Schönberg, Bessie

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Born in Hanover, Germany, Dec. 27, 1906, Bessie Schönberg was the daughter of American born Rose MacGrew and the German engineering student Alexander Schönberg. The family moved often as MacGrew pursued a career in opera but the effort was abandoned apparently due to illness and MacGrew left the family to return to the United States. When Bessie's father was called into active service in World War I, she and her sisters were left in the care of Gertrude Bierschenk, a young woman who had been o...

Dancing in the Streets/USA.

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