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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

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

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

John Petri papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Petri
Abstract

Choreographic notes, clippings, photographs, programs, and other materials documenting the career of ballet and Hungarian dancer John Petri (1892-1963).

Dates: 1916-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1963

Zwiefka family dance papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Zwiefka
Abstract

Materials related to Evelyn Zwiefka's, Grace Zwiefka Thuis's, and Diane Lewandowski's dance instruction in Chicago primarily through the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Public School District. The women specialized in ballet, folk, Hawaiian, Polish, and Spanish dance.

Dates: 1890-1987; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1960

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

Illinois Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Illinois Ballet
Abstract The Illinois Ballet was founded in 1959 by two former Sadler's Wells ballet dancers, Richard Ellis and Christine Du Boulay. The company presented several seasons of performances per year until its demise in 1972. The company remained constant with four soloists and ten corps members, and included two dancer/choreographers, Hy Somers and Dom Orejudos (aka Etienne). Collection consists of numerous performance photographs, programs and publicity material, a few pieces of correspondence and...
Dates: 1959-1972

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

Mark Turbyfill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Turbyfill
Abstract

Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems. Also, articles and reviews by and about Turbyfill, a few pieces of correspondence, clippings, dance programs, photographs, a cassette tape of him reading, and a published genealogy of the Turbyfill family.

Dates: 1911-1985

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Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 2
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
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Weidman, Charles 2
Africana Dancers 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Balaban & Katz 1
Barnes-Carruthers 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Cavan, Jack 1
Chalif, Louis H. (Louis Harvey), 1876-1948 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dance Horizons 1
Dorsey, Jimmy, 1904-1957 1
Duncan, Raymond, 1874-1966 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Edgewater Beach Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Ellis, Christine Du Boulay, 1923- 1
Ellis, Richard, 1918-2010 1
Ettlinger, Suzanne H. 1
Faidy, Abel, 1894-1965 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gallinot, Ruth, Dr. 1
Graham, Martha 1
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949 1
Hild, Dorothy 1
Huebert, Diana, 1899-1983 1
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 1
Illinois Ballet 1
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man 1
Koplin, Arthur 1
Koplin, Martha 1
Kostal, Irwin 1
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968 1
Lambert, Ainsley 1
Laurent, Robert, 1890-1970 1
Lewandowski, Diane 1
Lewis, Murray 1
Litz, Katherine, -1978 1
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 1
Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Mozen, Dorothy 1
Muehlhausen, Beulah E. 1
Nargin, Daniel 1
Nikolais, Alwin 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Petri, John, 1892-1963 1
Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950 1
Redlich, Don 1
Ruth Page Foundation 1
Ruth Page's International Ballet Company 1
San Carlo Opera Company 1
Sayers, Lionel 1
Serova, Sonia 1
Snyder, Bill 1
Society of the Golden Section (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Stone-Camryn School of Ballet 1
Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899 1
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 1
The Trio 1
Thuis, Grace Zwiefka 1
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 1
Tobey, Mark 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Wells High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973 1
YMCA of the USA 1
YWCA of the U.S.A. 1
Zwiefka family 1
Zwiefka, Evelyn 1
Zwiefka, Helen 1
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