Dance Notation Bureau Collection. [19--?]-

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Dance Notation Bureau Collection. [19--?]-

The collection is divided into 11 series: Teaching materials; Dance scores; Photographs; Microfilms; Helen Priest Rogers Collection (which includes film notes, music scores, personal research); Newsletters; Carl Wolz Collection (wich includes research files on Asian dance); Richard Holden collection (Benesh notation); Albrecht Knust (kinetographic Laban); DNB miscellaneaous materials (meeting minutes, research files, etc.); Audio visual materials. Also included in the collection are books.

219 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7342769

Ohio State University Libraries

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Knust, Albrecht,

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Venable, Lucy

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Rogers, Helen Priest

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Dancer, teacher. From the description of Reminiscences of Helen Priest Rogers : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451301 ...

Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.)

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The Dance Notation Bureau (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) was founded in 1940 by Ann Hutchinson Guest, Helen Priest Rogers, Eve Gentry, and Janey Price. The DNB mission is to advance the art of dance through the use of a system of notation, creating dance scores using the symbol system called Labanotation, named for Rudolf Laban who first published the system in 1928. In 1942, choreographer Eugene Loring requested a notation score of his Billy the Kid, the first ballet recorded in the Unit...

Wolz, Carl

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Carl Wolz (1932-2002) was an influential choreographer, scholar, educator, and dance advocate. Born and educated in St. Louis, he served in the Navy during the Korean War and went on to major in Art History at the University of Chicago. He developed an interest in dance in college and began taking classes. He attended the Juilliard School for dance and began working with the Lucas Hoving Dance Company in 1960. He danced with the Hoving Company as well as for the St. Louis Municipal ...

Holden, Richard Lee

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Benesh method, also called choreology, is a system of movement notation created by Rudolph Benesh. From the description of Holden collection of Benesh movement notation, 1966-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509979 ...