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  • Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
    Title: Nancy Ruyter papers
    Identifier/Call Number: MS.P.013
    Physical Description: 39 Linear Feet (39 record cartons)
    Date (inclusive): circa 1950-2013
    Date (bulk): 1980-2000
    Abstract: A collection of research files, correspondence, notes and papers, clippings, catalogs, and other materials collected by Nancy Ruyter documenting 19th and 20th century dance in the United States, as well as African and Balkan dance, opera, musical theatre, and musicals.
    Language of Material: English .

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    The collection has not been processed. It may contain restricted materials. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access.

    Publication Rights

    Property rights reside with the University of California. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright. For information on use, copyright, and attribution, please visit: http://special.lib.uci.edu/using/publishing.html

    Preferred Citation

    Nancy Ruyter papers. MS.P.013. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
    For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

    Collection Scope and Content Summary

    Nancy Lee Ruyter is a dance historian, choreographer, and professor at the University of California, Irvine. This collection comprises research materials gathered by Ruyter while writing Reformers and Visionaries: The Americanization of the Art of Dance (1979) and The Cultivation of Body and Mind in 19th-Century American Delsartism (1999). Additionally, the collection includes clippings, catalogs, and other research materials documenting 19th and 20th century dance in the United States, as well as African and Balkan dance, opera, musical theatre, and musicals.