Helen P. Alkire papers, ca. 1929-1989, bulk 1940-1989.

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Helen P. Alkire papers, ca. 1929-1989, bulk 1940-1989.

Also includes oral history tapes from interview November 27, 2001, by Jeannette Sexton.

35 cubic feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7415120

Ohio State University Libraries

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Ohio State University. Dept. of Dance.

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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...

Sexton, Jeannette.

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Ohio State University. University Dance Company.

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Alkire, Helen P.

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Helen P. Alkire, an innovative educator and professor emeritus of dance, joined Ohio State University's faculty in 1946. She was one of three founding members of the American College Dance Festival Association, formed "to encourage and recognize excellence in performance and choreography on the college level." Alkire also was a founding member of the Council of Dance Administrators. She began with the dance program in the Dept of Physical Education and developed it into a separate department in ...

American Dance in Repertory Company.

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