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Dance Horizons records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Dance Horizons
Abstract Films, photographs, programs, and newspaper clippings documenting the activities of a Highland Park modern dance venue consisting of three separate, but interrelated groups (The Trio, Dance Horizons, North Shore Dance Workshop) operated by Martha Koplin, Suzanne Ettlinger, and Dorothy Mozen, and active from 1958-1977. The three offered classes for children and adults, and held and filmed workshops with visiting artists including Merce Cunningham, Daniel Nagrin, Katherine Litz, Alwin...
Dates: 1958-1977

Judith and Bruce Sagan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Sagan
Abstract Material relating to the business career of Judith Sagan who founded the Harper Theater Dance Festival with her husband Bruce Sagan in 1965. This organization became the Harper Dance Foundation in 1970. A large portion of the collection concerns the Illinois Arts Council which supported the Sagans’ festival activities and on whose board both later served. Includes articles, clippings, correspondence, contracts, grant applications, programs, notes and other miscellaneous items concerning both...
Dates: 1965-1986

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Hubbard
Abstract

Hubbard Street Dance Company (renamed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 1993) was founded by dancer and choreographer Lou Conte in 1977 and has become one of the most successful and most internationally known dance companies to hail from Chicago. Records include administrative files, publicity materials, and audiovisual records of performances of the company.

Dates: 1971-2014

Diana Huebert papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Huebert
Abstract

Material collected by dancer Diana Huebert (Mrs. Abel Faidy), the bulk consisting of programs and photographs of herself and other dancers. Also, some articles she wrote or saved, including an autobiographical sketch, choreographic notes, and miscellaneous material relating to her husband, architect and designer Abel Faidy.

Dates: 1916-1983

Margot Grimmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Grimmer
Abstract

Material relating to the career of Chicago dancer Margot Grimmer, including clippings, advertising items, programs, a few miscellaneous incoming letters, and numerous photographs.

Dates: 1956-1984

MoMing Dance and Arts Center records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-MoMing
Abstract

MoMing was a center in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood for dance training and avant-garde performance as well as an art gallery. It was formed in 1974 by Jackie Radis, Jim Self, Susan Kimmelman, Eric Trules, Kasia Mintch, Tem Horowitz, and Sally Banes. Along with local artists, it hosted many guest dancers and artists of renown, including Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, Mark Morris, and Meredith Monk. It officially dissolved in 1991.

Dates: 1968-1991; Majority of material found within 1974-1990

Ernestine Stodelle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stodelle
Abstract

Collection of files kept by Ernestine Stodelle regarding her professional life as dancer, teacher, author and dance critic. Material relates to Stodelle’s own career and her association with dance figures Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Jose Limon and Louis Horst. Consists of correspondence, articles, clippings, lectures, programs, reviews, tributes, photographs, dance descriptions and reconstructions.

Dates: 1925-2006

May O'Donnell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-O'Donnell
Abstract

Material relating to the career of modern dancer May O’Donnell, consisting of advertising and announcements, articles, reviews, programs and photographs. Also a few miscellaneous items, some of which relate to O’Donnell’s husband, musician Ray Green.

Dates: 1934-1996

Amy Osgood papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Osgood
Abstract

Fifteen videotapes of performances and rehearsals by choreographer Amy Osgood and her dance company, Osgood Dances, Inc., which was active in Chicago from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.

Dates: 1980-1991

Nancy Mattei Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Mattei
Abstract

Brochures, clippings, and reviews covering Mattei's career as a dancer at MoMing Dance and Arts Center in Chicago. Also includes some clippings about Mattei's sometime dance partner Charlie Vernon; about dancer-choreographer Jan Bartoszek; and about Chicago performance space Links Hall.

Dates: 1976-2001; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1982

Jan Erkert and Dancers Records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Erkert
Abstract

Jan Erkert founded jansdances in 1979 as a vehicle for her own works. The company evolved to Jan Erkert & Dancers and explored collaboration with other types of artists and dance presentations. The records include awards, clippings, newsletters, photographs, publicity materials, and videocassettes.

Dates: 1974-2000

Chicago Moving Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-CMC
Abstract

Performance and administrative records of the Chicago Moving Company, a contemporary dance company founded by Nana Shineflug. Includes photographs, performance records, publicity materials, reviews, programs, newsletters, school program files and curriculum, and records of the annual dance concert “Dance Shelter.” Also includes financial and grant records.

Dates: 1968-2019; Majority of material found within 1986-2019

F. Peter Weil collection of photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Weil
Abstract

85 photographs of an amateur Detroit modern dance group led by German dancer Tosia Mundstock.

Dates: approximately 1946-1950

Doris Humphrey Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Humphrey-Society
Abstract

Records of the Doris Humphrey Society, a cultural non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of dance and dance theory. Includes administrative and promotional files for the Society from the 1980s to late 2000s. Collection also includes photographs, audiovisual, biographical, and promotional materials of Doris Humphrey and her dance career, with personal photographs of her childhood and family. Also includes a small number of materials from the MOMENTA dance company.

Dates: 1870-2011; Majority of material found within 1920-1997

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MoMing Dance and Arts Center (Chicago) 4
Weidman, Charles 4
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 3
Dean, Laura, 1945- 2
Doris Humphrey Society 2
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Farley, Ginger 2
Graham, Martha 2
Limón, José 2
Monk, Meredith 2
Stodelle, Ernestine 2
Appel, David (Dancer and choreographer) 1
Bartoszek, Jan 1
Bataille, Claire 1
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company 1
Bornarth, Christine 1
Braun, Eric, 1923-1970 1
Cerrudo, Alejandro 1
Chicago Central Area Committee 1
Chicago Moving Company 1
Cipponeri, Paul 1
Clemens, Stephanie 1
Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.). Dance Center 1
Conte, Lou 1
Crawford, Lezlie 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dance Horizons 1
Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.) 1
De Jesus, Ron 1
Denishawn School of Dancing 1
Dodson, Poonie 1
Duato, Nacho 1
Duncan, Raymond, 1874-1966 1
Dunn, Douglas, 1942- 1
Edgerton, Glenn 1
Erkert, Jan 1
Ettlinger, Suzanne H. 1
Ezralow, Daniel 1
Faidy, Abel, 1894-1965 1
Frederking, William 1
Gongora, Anthony 1
Grand Union (Performance group) 1
Green, Louise 1
Green, Ray, 1908-1997 1
Grimmer, Ann 1
Grimmer, Margot 1
Guzman, Krenly 1
Hallihan, Juli 1
Hanson, Carrie 1
Harper Dance Foundation 1
Harper Theater Dance Festival 1
Ho, Suet May 1
Horst, Louis 1
Hubbard Street 2 1
Hubbard Street Dance Company 1
Huebert, Diana, 1899-1983 1
Ide, Letitia 1
Illinois Arts Council 1
Jan Erkert and Dancers 1
José Limón Dance Company 1
Kalver, Gail 1
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 1
King, Eleanor, 1906-1991 1
Koplin, Arthur 1
Koplin, Martha 1
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 1
Kylian, Jiri, 1947- 1
LaSota, Kay Wendt 1
Laurent, Robert, 1890-1970 1
Lewis, Murray 1
Lin, Jin-Jin 1
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
Litz, Katherine, -1978 1
Lou Conte Dance Studio 1
MOMENTA Dance Company 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance Company 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance School 1
Mark Morris Dance Group 1
Martha Graham Dance Company 1
Matsumoto, Kōshirō, 1870-1949 1
Mattei, Nancy 1
Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992 1
Mozen, Dorothy 1
Mundstock, Tosia 1
Nakagawa, Julie 1
Nargin, Daniel 1
Nelson, Kim 1
Nikolais, Alwin 1
O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004 1
Ohlberg, Jason 1
Osgood Dances, Inc. 1
Osgood, Amy 1
Osgood, Charles, 1941- 1
Phyllis Sabold Dance Company 1
Puscewicz, David 1
Radis, Jackie 1
Redlich, Don 1
Rothblatt, Peter 1
Sagan, Bruce 1
Sagan, Judith 1
Sappington, Margo 1
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