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Ann Barzel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Barzel
Abstract

Correspondence, works, photographs, and personal and biographical material by Chicago dance critic and historian Ann Barzel.

Dates: 1912-2005

Virna Harman Walker Johnston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-JohnstonV
Abstract

Correspondence, programs, report cards, and clippings relating to Chicago dancer and dance instructor Virna Harman Walker Johnston.

Dates: 1903-1959; Majority of material found within 1918-1930

Ruth Page papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Page
Abstract

Personal papers of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. Materials include correspondence, choreographic and technical notes, address books, programs, press clippings and scrapbooks, journals writings, photographs, business records, audio recordings, and musical scores. Featured dance works include The Bells, Carmen, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Frankie and Johnny, and Billy Sunday.

Dates: 1892-1997

Ruth Levy dance photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-LevyR
Abstract Ruth Levy, who performed as a dancer with the Pavley/Oukrainsky Junior Ballet, received a master’s degree in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972. This collection includes her slides, negatives, proof sheets, and prints of dancers in several companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Ruth Page Chicago Ballet among others. Some of these photographs...
Dates: 1928-1976; Majority of material found within 1970-1973

Dorothy Hild papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Hild
Abstract Former Director of Entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and founder of the dance troupe Africana Dancers. Papers include correspondence, clippings, financial information, photographs, publicity, sheet music for her productions and dance numbers at the Edgewater Beach Hotel as well as the auto and fair shows Dorothy Hild directed under the auspices of Barnes - Carruthers, and files from her instruction at various YMCA and YWCA locations in Chicago. Additionally, the papers...
Dates: 1847-1984; Majority of material found within 1929-1980

Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract

Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.

Dates: 1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910-1988

Ravinia Festival Association records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ravinia
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, reports, and publicity relating to the Ravinia Festival, a summer music festival held at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois, since 1904 (non-continuous).

Dates: 1903-1993

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 6
Correspondence 5
Ballet dancers 4
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Dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
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Choreographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Clippings -- 1901-1950 2
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 2
Dance -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Dance photography 2
Moving images 2
New York (N.Y.) 2
Programs 2
Publicizing 2
Scores (documents for music) 2
Sheet music 2
Address books 1
Agnosticism 1
Artillerymen 1
Astrology 1
Ballet 1
Ballet -- History 1
Ballet dancers -- Photographs 1
Ballroom dancers 1
Birth control 1
Black-and-white slides 1
Bottle feeding 1
Breastfeeding 1
Businesswomen -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Chater (Man.) 1
Childbirth 1
Childhood 1
Christian Science 1
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Clippings -- 2001-2050 1
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Communitarianism -- United States 1
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Dance -- United States 1
Dance companies -- United States 1
Dance critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance teachers 1
Dance teachers -- Middle West 1
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Elmhurst (Ill.) 1
Fair Oaks (Calif.) 1
Farmers -- Canada 1
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Fire fighters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Folk dancing, Mexican 1
Folk dancing, Yoruba 1
Hotels 1
Housekeeping 1
Industrial musicals 1
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 1
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La Crescenta (Calif.) 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
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Milwaukee (Wis.) 1
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Scrapbooks -- Iowa -- Des Moines -- 1901-1950 1
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Soldiers -- Canadian -- 1910-1920 1
Spiritualists 1
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Language
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 4
Arpino, Gerald 2
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 2
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
Stone, Bentley 2
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Africana Dancers 1
Ailey, Alvin 1
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 1
American Ballet Theatre 1
American Red Cross 1
Aragno, Anna 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Baker, Anna 1
Balaban & Katz 1
Ballet Guild of Chicago 1
Barnes-Carruthers 1
Barr, Howard, 1922-2014 1
Barzel, Ann 1
Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company 1
Bonnefoux, Jean-Pierre 1
Bortoluzzi, Paolo, 1938- 1
Burke, Dermot 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Cavan, Jack 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago Public Library 1
Chicago Public Schools 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Chryst, Gary 1
Clarke, Mary, 1923-2015 1
Cook, Mollie Price 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Corkle, Francesca 1
D'Antuono, Eleanor 1
Danais, Starr 1
Darpana Academy of the Performing Arts 1
De Conville, Phillipe 1
De Mille, Agnes 1
Diamond, Matthew, 1951- 1
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Dobson, Deborah 1
Doctoroff, John, 1893-1970 1
Dodson, Daryl 1
Donaldson, Virginia 1
Dorsey, Jimmy, 1904-1957 1
Dunne, James 1
Dzhermolinska, Helen 1
Edgewater Beach Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Ellis, Richard, 1918-2010 1
Endō, Akira 1
Falco, Louis 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991 1
Foss, Lukas, 1922-2009 1
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Gallinot, Ruth, Dr. 1
Gilmore, Blanche 1
Gregory, Cynthia 1
Hagen, Walter 1
Harman, Lillian 1
Harman, Moses, 1830-1910 1
Hild, Dorothy 1
Holmes, Berenice 1
Illinois Arts Council 1
Jamison, Judith 1
Joffrey Ballet 1
Joffrey, Robert 1
Johnston, Arthur Oliver, 1890-1972 1
Johnston, Chester 1
Johnston, Robert Harman, 1920-2011 1
Johnston, Virna Harman Walker 1
Kirkland, Gelsey 1
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996 1
Kivitt, Ted 1
Kostal, Irwin 1
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968 1
Kwak, Sung 1
Labis, Attilio 1
Lambert, Ainsley 1
Levine, James 1
Levy, Ruth 1
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 1
Lindlahr Sanitarium 1
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 1
Makarova, Natalia, 1940- 1
Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 1
Maule, Michael 1
McBride, Patricia, 1942- 1
Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-2018 1
Muller, Jennifer, 1949- 1
National Dance Company of Senegal 1
New York City Ballet 1
O'Brien, George Harman, 1905- 1
O'Brien, George Robert 1
Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- 1
Pavley, Andreas, 1892-1931 1
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Ravinia Company 1
Ravinia Festival Association 1
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