Series 1. Artifacts
undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains artifacts related to ballet perfomances, including ballet shoes and castanets.
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged by item.
Series 2. Correspondence
1923-1984, undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains postcards, personal letters, and telegrams between Joyce Berry, ballet officials, and friends.
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged in chronological order and then by subject.
Box 2, Folder 1
Letters to officials in the ballet community
1923-1929
Box 2, Folder 2
Letters to officials with ties to the ballet company
1930-1939
Box 2, Folder 3
General correspondence
1940-1948
Box 2, Folder 4
Letters to outside media
1950-1956
Box 2, Folder 5
Letters to friends/family
1960-1984
Box 2, Folder 6
Letters to other persons
undated
Box 2, Folder 7
Russian Correspondence
1925
Box 2, Folder 9
Memoranda of Agreement
1923
Series 3. Photographs
1924-1954, undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs of various dancers from Russia, France, and the United States.
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged by photographs of Joyce Berry followed by photographs of other dancers.
Box 3, Folders 1-2
Joyce Berry
1930-1938, undated
Box 3, Folder 3
Sonia Wojcikovska
1940, 1945, and undated
Scope and Contents
Folder includes photos of Sonia Wojcikovska. Some photos are autographed.
Box 3, Folder 4
Signed Photographs
1924, 1933-1947, 1954, undated
Box 3, Folder 5
Assorted Photographs
undated
Scope and Contents
Photos of dancers and some portraits.
Series 4. Articles and news clippings
1917-1987, undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains articles and newspaper clippings related to ballet dancers, performers, and artists who had direct or
indirect affiliations with Joyce Berry. The series also includes essays pertaining to ballet, newspaper articles that feature
ballerinas and ballerinos in their headlines, and photographic prints of these dances.
Series Arrangement
This series is organized topically. Oversized materials were placed in correpsonding flat file folders.
Box 4, Folder 1
Dancing Times - "A History of Dance"
undated
Box 4, Folder 2
Dancing Times - Bibliographies
undated
Box 4, Folder 3
Dancing Times - Essays
undated
Box 4, Folder 4
Dancing Times - Clippings
undated
Box 4, Folder 5
Dancing Times - "Letter on the Dance Ballet"
undated
Box 4, Folder 6
Dancing Times - "Notes on Décor"
undated
Box 4, Folder 7, Flat-File-Folder 2
Bolshoi Ballet newspaper clippings
1956, undated
Box 4, Folder 8, Flat-File-Folder 3
Dance company newspaper clippings
circa 1941-1958
Box 4, Folder 9, Flat-File-Folder 4
Newspaper clippings of dancers
1946-1959, 1972, undated
Box 4, Folder 10, Flat-File-Folder 5
Dance newspaper clippings
1940, 1946-1959, 1986, undated
Box 4, Folder 11, Flat-File-Folder 6
Dance Production newspaper clippings
1946-1963, 1970, 1987, undated
Box 4, Folder 12
French newspaper clippings
1924, 1926, undated
Box 4, Folder 13
Articles from
The Dance
1926
Box 4, Folder 14, Flat-File-Folder 7
Newspaper clippings on composers
1956-1958, 1979, undated
Box 5, Folder 1, Flat-File-Folder 8
Non-Dance newspaper clippings
1918, 1940, 1953, 1961, undated
Flat-File-Folder 9
Newspaper clippings on artists
1958-1962, undated
Box 5, Folder 2
Newspaper clippings on Svetlana Beriosava
1954-1961
Box 5, Folder 3
Newspaper clippings on Joyce Berry
1925 & undated
Box 5, Folder 4
Newspaper clippings on Antoine Bolin
1959, 1965, and undated
Box 5, Folder 5
Newspaper clippings on Richard Buckle
1961-1968, undated
Flat-File-Folder 10
Newspaper clippings on Yvette Chauvire
1958-1959, undated
Box 5, Folder 6
Newspaper clippings on Sergei Diaghileff
1924-1925, 1979, undated
Box 5, Folder 7, Flat-File-Folder 11
Newspaper clippings on Margot Fonteyn
1946-1965, 1975, undated
Box 5, Folder 8, Flat-File-Folder 12
Newspaper clippings on Beryl Grey
1957-1958, undated
Box 5, Folder 9
Newspaper clippings on Natalie Krassova
undated
Box 5, Folder 10, Flat-File-Folder 13
Newspaper clippings on Natalia Makarova
1970 & undated
Box 5, Folder 11
Newspaper clippings on Alicia Markova
1940, 1957, undated
Box 5, Folder 12
Newspaper clippings on Leonide Massiene
1960 & undated
Box 5, Folder 13
Newspaper clippings on Nadia Nerina
1959-1961
Box 5, Folder 14
Newspaper clippings on Vaslav Nijinsky
1950 & undated
Box 5, Folder 15, Flat-File-Folder 14
Newspaper clippings on Rudolf Nureyev
1962, 1970, and undated
Box 5, Folder 18
Newspaper clippings on Anna Pavlova
undated
Box 5, Folder 19
Newspaper clippings on Maia Plisetskaya
1984 & undated
Box 5, Folder 18
Newspaper clippings on Antoinette Sibley
1959 & undated
Box 5, Folder 19
Newspaper clippings on Maria and Marjorie Tallchief
1958, 1965, and undated
Box 5, Folder 20
Newspaper clippings on Ludmilla Tcherina
1959 & undated
Box 5, Folder 21
Newspaper clippings on Tamara Toumanova
1953
Box 5, Folder 22, Flat-File-Folder 15
Newspaper clippings on Galina Ulanova
1956, 1962, undated
Flat-File-Folder 16
Newspaper clippings Ninette De Valois
1957-1959, 1969, undated
Box 5, Folder 23, Flat-File-Folder 17
Newspaper clippings - dance during wartime (originals)
1917-1918
Box 5, Folder 24
Newspaper clippings - dance during wartime (facsimiles)
1917-1918
Box 5, Folder 26
Loose notes and clippings
1927 & undated
Processing revision
The students that initially processed this collection and created the finding aid, in 2015, noted that the materials in this
folder were found loose in the front of a notebook and gave a date of "circa 1919". There is no further information of which
notebook the materials were found in.
Scope and Contents
Folder contains dance notes, newspaper clippings, and excerpts from "The Dancing Times."
Series 5. Literary works
1910-1957, undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains literary works and written entries pertaining to the study of ballet and perfomances. These materials
include dance notebooks detailing lesson plans, artistic cues, different performance values, and books and pamphlets on ballet
and dancers.
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged topically.
Box 6, Folder 1
Dance Notebooks- Dance Diaries
undated
Box 6, Folder 2
Dance Notebooks- Notebook #1
undated
Box 6, Folder 3
Dance Notebooks- Sarbonne, Paris
1930
Box 6, Folder 4
Notebooks and calendar books
1929, 1938, undated
Physical Description:
6 Items
Box 6, Folder 5
Notebook of German Lessons
undated
Box 6, Folder 6
Poetry notebook
1919-1922
Box 7, Folder 1
Books and Pamphlets- Picture Postcards
undated
Box 7, Folder 2
Books and Pamphlets- Pamphlets
1918, 1921, 1926, 1943
Box 7, Folder 3
Books and Pamphlets- Assorted Printed Materials and Clippings
1917, 1956-1957, undated
Box 7, Folder 4
Books and Pamphlets- Printed Materials
1910 & undated
Series 6. Programs
1904-1984, undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains programs from various ballet performances between 1922 and 1962. Programs in the series include performance
lists, cast lists, production notes, and general information about the performances.
Series Arrangement
This series is primarily arranged chronologically with some material in box 10 arranged alphabetically.
Box 9, Folder 4-6
Joyce Berry performances
1912-1933 & undated
Box 9, Folder 7
Joyce Berry personal photos and clippings
1914, 1938, undated
Box 10, Folders 1-2
Art & Exhibits
1913-1941, 1924-1926, 1930, 1955, undated
Box 10, Folder 4
Theater
1924-1976, undated
Box 10, Folder 5
Opera
1904, 1026-1930, 1950, 1977
Box 10, Folders 6-7
L'Opera Russe à Paris
1930 & undated
Box 10, Folder 8
Miscellaneous printed materials on art and dance
1925, 1956, undated
Series 7. Sheet music and composition
1891-1944, undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains musical compositions for ballet performances during the early twentieth to mid-twentieth centuries.
Series Arrangement
This series is organized in chronological order where dates are available. In addition to chronological order specific compositions
are listed in alphabetical order.
Box 11, Folder 2
Music related clippings
undated
Processing note
Folder was titled "Found with music" during initial processing and the title was changed during review. It is assumed these
materials were loose in boxes with other music related materials and placed in this folder together.
Box 11, Folder 3
Handwritten sheet music
1917-1918 & undated
Box 11, Folder 4-5
Printed sheets music
undated
Box 11, Box 6
The Music Lover's Portfolio...
undated
Box 11, Box 7
The University Course of Music Study
undated
Box 11, Folder 8
Touch and Technic for Artistic Piano Playing
undated
Box 12, Folders 1 to 10, Box 13, Folders 1 & 2
Sheet Music
1891-1930, 1944, undated
Scope and Contents
Assorted printed sheet music for piano from numerous different composers.
Series 8. Scrapbooks
1918-1937, undated
Series Scope and Contents
This series contains scrapbooks made by Joyce Berry about ballet dancers, performances, orchestral accounts, and newspaper
articles.
Series Arrangement
This series is roughly arranged by size: from smaller to larger bound volumes.
Box 14, Folder 1
Small Scrapbook
1922-1923
Box 14, Folder 2
Dance Notebook/Scrapbook
1923-1924
Box 14, Folder 3
Dance Technique Journal
1922
Box 14, Folder 4
Technique of the Dance notebook
1919-1923
Box 15, Item 1
Joyce Berry Album V Scrapbook
1924-1927, undated
Box 15, Item 2
Album Scrapbook
1928-1937, undated
Box 16, Item 1
Scrapbook of Dancers
1923 & undated
Scope and Content Summary
This scrapbook contains dancer images with an emphasize on Anna Pavlova.
Box 16, Item 2
Scrapbook of Dancers
1918-1922, undated
Box 17, Item 1
Scrapbook of Dancers
1922-1924, undated
