George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

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George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612235226

Includes business and personal papers of George Balanchine: correspondence conducted primarily by his personal assistant Barbara Horgan; Labanotations and Benesh notations of his ballets created by the Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.) and Benesh Institute of Choreology Ltd.; ballet scenarios; music scores; contracts; programs; photographs; clippings; his financial and medical records; audiotapes and videotapes; awards, fan mail, and memorabilia from his arrival in the United States to his death. Also includes records of the New York City Ballet, the George Balanchine Foundation and the George Balanchine Trust, and programs and photographs of various other ballet companies all over the world.

115 boxes, 1 v., 61 videotapes (62.5 linear ft.)

Harvard University, Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard College Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7794890

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George Balanchine Foundation

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Popular Balanchine was designed to document the works choreographed by George Balanchine for the popular stage and the movie screen. From 1927-1931, Balanchine staged dances and musical numbers for reviews, variety shows, and operettas in London and Paris as well as creating choreography for Dark red roses, among the first feature-length talking motion pictures made in England. In the United States, from 1936-1954, he worked with Vernon Duke, John Murray Anderson, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, G...

George Balanchine Trust

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Balanchine, George

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Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Horgan, Barbara

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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...

Benesh Institute of Choreology Ltd.

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Originally an accountant, Rudolf Benesh and his wife, Joan Benesh (formerly Rothwell, a soloist with the Sadler's Wells Ballet), founded the Benesh Movement Notation (BMN) system in 1955. BMN is a system by which movements may be transcribed into written form, and is used by dancers, choreographers, archivists, and also clinicians studying human movement. One reason for its success is that over twenty-five major dance companies utilised BMN and its use of the musical five-line staff...

New York City Ballet

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The New York City Ballet is the brainchild of Lincoln Kirstein, who envisioned an American Ballet of young native dancers, trained and schooled to perform new, modern repertory. The company now performs 23 weeks of the year under the direction of Peter Martins. For further information see http://www.nycballet.com. From the guide to the New York City Ballet records, 1934-1976, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.) The New York City Ballet ...