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Title: North Carolina School of the Arts dance programs collection
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 92
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
8.34 linear feet
(20 document boxes)
Creator:
North Carolina School of the Arts
Date (inclusive): 1911-1991
Abstract: Collection of dance programs, playbills, and clippings spanning the twentieth century.
The collection is open for research. The collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research 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.
[Identification of Item], North Carolina School of the Arts dance programs collection, PA Mss 92. Department of Special Research
Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Transferred from North Carolina School of the Arts, 2012.
Processed by Hannah Freund, Zachary Liebhaber, and Fran Smith, 2014.
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.
This collection is divided into the following series: I. Dance troupe program files, II. Subject files, III. Dancers and artist,
and Series IV. Accession PA.2013.012.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ballet -- History -- 20th century
Dance -- History -- 20th century
Clippings (information artifacts)
Playbills
Programs (documents)
Souvenir programs
North Carolina School of the Arts -- Archives
American Ballet Theatre
Ballets russes
Armistead, Horace
Bakst, Leon