Leon Danielian papers, 1930-1994.

Boris, Ruthanna, 1918-2007

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Ruthanna Boris (1918-2007) was a distinguished American dancer, teacher and choreographer with several leading companies and first American ballerina to star in one of the Ballets russes troupes of the 1940s....

Suny, Seda

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Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997

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Ballerina and dance educator Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova (1903-1907) was born in Petergof, Russia. In 1911, she began studying dance at the Russian Imperial Ballet School in Leningrad. There she met George Balanchine, with whom she would maintain a life-long friendship. In 1920, Danilova danced with the Maryinsky Ballet. She joined Balanchine's Soviet State Dancers for a tour of Western Europe in 1924. In December of that year, Sergey Diaghilev brought both her and Balanchine into his acclai...

Mordkin, Mikhail, 1881-1944

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Russian-born ballet dancer who performed with the Ballets Russes and Anna Pavlova and later founded the Mordkin School of Dance in New York. From the description of Papers, ca.1885-1979. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122408583 Mikhail Mikhailovich Mordkin, Russian dancer and teacher, was born in Moscow on December 9, 1880 into the family of the violinist of the Imperial Theatres. At the age of nine he entered Moscow Imperial Ballet School. Upon ...

Fehl, Fred

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

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Sergei Denham (1896-1970) was a Russian-born banker and director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Leonide Massine (1896-1979) was Russian dancer and choreographer and artistic director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. From the description of Records concerning Leonide Massine, 1939-1969 (inclusive), 1942-1954 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557063 The Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo was a company that existed between 1938 and 1962 under the directorship of Sergei...

Denham, Sergei, 1896-1970

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Sergei Denham (1896-1970) is most prominently known as the director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Sergei Ivanovich Denham was born Sergei Ivanovich Dokouchaiev (Docootshieff) the son of a banker. The family moved from Samara on the Volga to Moscow, and Sergei was sent to boarding school near St. Petersburg. Eventually he finished his schooling at The Moscow Commercial Institute. His education was eclectic, covering both business and the arts. He developed a particu...

Chase, Lucia, 1897-1986

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Lucia Hosmer Chase Ewing was born March 24, 1897 in Waterbury, Connecticut to Irving Hall Chase, President of Waterbury Clock Company, and Elizabeth Hosmer Kellogg Chase. Lucia was the middle child of five sisters: Marjorie, Eleanor (Mrs. Charles P. Taft), Elizabeth I. (Mrs. John Griffith Davies), and Dorothy (Mrs. Edward Carmody). Lucia was educated at St. Margaret's School and Bryn Mawr College. She then moved to New York City to study theatre at the Theatre Guild Scho...

Vollmar, Jocelyn.

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Prima ballerina with the San Francisco Ballet from 1956-1972. Also soloist with the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, the Borovansky Australian Ballet, and the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas in the late 1940s and early 1950s. From the description of Papers, 1944-1972. (Museum of Performance & Design). WorldCat record id: 430364154 ...

Penn, Irving

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Irving Penn (b. 1917) is a commercial and fine arts photographer. In addition to fashion and portrait photography, much of it commissioned by Vogue, his oeuvre includes ethnographic studies, still lifes, nudes, and advertising works. From the description of Irving Penn paper archives, 1939-1997. (Art Institute of Chicago). WorldCat record id: 79003191 Penn, Irving. American Photographer. Born: Plainfield, New Jersey, June 16, 1917. Education: Studied design, under Alexey Bro...

Ballet Theatre (New York, N.Y.)

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Saroyan, William, 1908-1981

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Frances Ring was Editor at WESTWAYS in Los Angeles. From the description of Letters (and manuscripts and photos) to Frances Ring, 1970-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863419 Goldie Weisberg was a fellow writer whose work Saroyan had discovered in a literary magzine. Saroyan initiated the correspondence, which focuses on their respective reading, writing, and work lives. From the description of Correspondence with Goldie Weisberg, 1930-1938. (Unknown). Wor...

Loring, Eugene, 1911-1982

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Eugene Loring was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. From the description of Eugene Loring collection, ca. 1938-1980. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517370 Dancer, choreographer. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Loring : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574179 Eugene Loring, influential American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, is best ...

Novak, Nina

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Danielian, Leon, 1920-1997

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American ballet dancer and teacher, Leon Danielian (1920-1997) enjoyed an especially varied career as a performer, but is best known for his long association with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Danielian, a native New Yorker of Armenian ancestry, studied ballet as a child with an influential teacher, Madame Seda, who later sent him to Mikhail Mordkin for additional training. He joined the Mordkin Ballet in 1937 and when that troupe was refashioned into Ballet Theatre i...

San Francisco Ballet

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Seawell, Wallace, 1916-2007

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Chauviré, Yvette 1917-

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