North Carolina School of the Arts Dance Programs Collection

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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Guide to the North Carolina School of the Arts Dance Programs Collection

Collection number: PA Mss 92

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Processed by:: Frances Kay Smith
Date Completed:: 11/5/2012
Encoded by:: Zachary Liebhaber

Descriptive Summary

Title: North Carolina School of the Arts dance programs collection

Dates: 1911-1991

Collection number: PA Mss 92

Collection Size: 3 linear feet (7 document boxes).

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: Collection of dance programs, playbills, and clippings spanning the twentieth century.

Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English

Access

Use of the collection is unrestricted.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

North Carolina School of the Arts dance programs collection. PA Mss 92, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Scope and Content of Collection

Collection of dance programs, playbills, and souvenir programs spanning the twentieth century from teens to nineties. Several files include American Ballet Theater programs from 1940 to 1991. Collection contains both U.S. dance troupes and overseas touring troupes, representative of ballet and native dance troupes from Africa, Bali, Cambodia, France, Greece, Haiti, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Yugoslavia. Programs often contain descriptions of regional dances and practices.

Files contain clipping collections of dancers and artists related to dance, such as costumers/set designers Leon Bakst and Horace Armistead, as well as subjects related to dance, such as stage setting and scenery; pictorial works; costume; ballet and dancing depicted in art; ballet of the 20th century; cartoons and caricatures of dance.

Arrangement

This collection is divided into the following series: I. Dance troupe program files, II. Subject files, III. Dancers and artists

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Dance

Ballet

American Ballet Theatre

Ballets russes

Armistead, Horace

Bakst, Leon, 1866-1924

Programs

Clippings

Playbills

Collection Contents

Series I. Dance troupe programe files

Box 1: 1

American Ballet Theatre (1 of 4)

Box 1: 2

American Ballet Theatre (2 of 4)

Box 1: 3

American Ballet Theatre (3 of 4)

Box 2: 1

American Ballet Theatre (4 of 4)

Box 2: 2

American Ballet

Box 2: 3

American Folk Ballet

Box 2: 4

Chicago Opera Ballet

Box 2: 5

Dance Black America

Box 2: 6

Opera Ballet Music Hall in the World

Box 2: 7

North Carolina Dance theater

Box 2: 8

Southern Ballet of Atlanta

Box 2: 9

Transitions Dance Company

Box 2: 10

Winslow-Fitzsimons

Box 3: 1

Africa

Box 3: 2

Bali

Box 3: 3

Cambodia

Box 3: 4

Greek Dances Dora Stratou Theater

Box 3: 5

Haiti

Box 3: 6

India

Box 3: 7

Iran

Box 3: 8

Israel

Box 3: 9

Japan

Box 3: 10

Korea

Box 3: 11

Mexico

Box 4: 1

Philippines

Box 4: 2

Poland

Box 4: 3

Russia

Box 4: 4

Russia/Soviet Union

Box 4: 5

Mia Slavenska Ballet/Slavenska Franklin Ballet

Box 4: 6

Soirée de Paris

Box 4: 7

Spain (1 of 2)

Box 4: 8

Spain (2 of 2) [includes Basque]

Box 4: 9

Yugoslavia

Series II. Subject files

Box 5: 1

Ballet - Costume

Box 5: 2

Ballet - Pictorial works

Box 5: 3

Ballet - Stage setting and scenery

Box 5: 4

Ballet companies, miscellaneous

Box 5: 5

Ballet in art

Box 5: 6

Ballet Nacional de Cuba

Box 5: 7

Ballet of the 20th century

Box 5: 8

Ballet Rambert

Box 5: 9

The Ballet Society (New York)

Box 5: 10

Ballet, misc.

Box 5: 11

Bourneville, August: Etudes Choreographic; A New Year's Gift for Dance Lovers

Box 5: 12

Dancing

Box 5: 13

Dancing in art

Box 5: 14

Dancing in the United States [Dancing United States History]

Box 5: 15

Dancing--Caricatures and cartoons

Box 5: 16

Feld Ballet

Box 5: 17

Hungarian Dance News (1980, Nos. 3-4)

Box 5: 18

New York. Public Library. Dance Collection

Box 5: 19

Nutcracker

Box 5: 20

Royal Ballet

Box 5: 21

Russia Festival of Music and Dance

Box 5: 22

Sidewalk Dance Theater

Box 5: 23

Swan Lake (Ballet)

Series III. Dancers and artists

Box 6: 1

Alonso, Alicia

Box 6: 2

Armistead, Horace

Box 6: 3

Bakst, Leon (1 of 2)

Box 6: 4

Bakst, Leon (2 of 2)

Box 6: 5

Balanchine, George

Box 6: 6

Bessmertnova, Natalia

Box 6: 7

Diaghelev, Sergei (other materials)

Box 6: 8

Diaghilev, Sergei (1916 tour)

Box 6: 9

Dowell, Anthony

Box 6: 10

Fonteyn, Margot

Box 7: 1

Ghelderode, Michel de

Box 7: 2

Jones, Robert Edmond

Box 7: 3

La Argentina (dancer)

Box 7: 4

Liepa, Maris

Box 7: 5

Markova, Alicia

Box 7: 6

Martins, Peter

Box 7: 7

McBride, Patricia

Box 7: 8

Miscellaneous dancers

Box 7: 9

Nijinsky, Waslaw

Box 7: 10

Nureyev, Rudolf

Box 7: 11

Park, Merle

Box 7: 12

Pavlova, Anna

Box 7: 13

Robbins, Jerome

Box 7: 14

Seymour, Lynn

Box 7: 15

Sibley, Antoinette

Box 7: 16

Tomasson, Helgi

Box 7: 17

Vasiliev, Vladimir

Box 7: 18

Verdy, Violette

Box 7: 19

Wall, David

Box 7: 20

Wigman, Mary

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