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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

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

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

Alan Howard papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Howard
Abstract

Clippings, photographs, programs, assorted miscellaneous printed material and memorabilia relating to ballet dancers and dance companies.

Dates: 1924-2002; Majority of material found within 1980-2002

Edna Lucile Baum Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Baum
Abstract

Material relating to Chicago dance teacher and author Edna Lucile Baum, which includes incoming correspondence, writings, photographs, programs, dance notations and other miscellaneous printed items, scrapbooks and notebooks.

Dates: 1890-1981

Dean Diggins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Diggins
Abstract

Material regarding Diggins’s career as a tap dancer and teacher, including class notes while studying with Paul Draper, plus clippings, photographs, programs, publicity items and scrapbooks relating to his ten years as a part of the Mattison Trio. Also, his choreographic notes for tap routines composed for classical music and audio and video tapes of some of those dances.

Dates: 1956-1995

Edith Allard papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Allard
Abstract

Letters, postcards, telegrams, contracts and schedules, clippings, photographs and programs of dance performances in Israel and Sweden, two art prints and a small collection of medals.

Dates: 1955-1991

Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Ensemble Espanol
Abstract

Material collected by Libby Komaiko, founder of the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, relating to her and the dance company. Consists mostly of photographs of Komaiko and other dancers, plus a few clippings, flyers, posters, programs, and miscellaneous pieces. Also, two copies of a videotape entitled “The First 20 Years, 1976-1996.”

Dates: 1974-2003

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

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

Ellen Goldsmith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates: 1933-2007

Hope Abelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

Goodman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

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Names
Weidman, Charles 3
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 2
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Graham, Martha 2
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 2
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New York City Ballet 2
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 2
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Allard, Edith, 1927-2012 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Ballets russes 1
Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- 1
Baum, Edna Lucile 1
Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Braun, Eric, 1923-1970 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Chase, Lucia, 1897-1986 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
Chicago Opera Ballet 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dance Horizons 1
Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.) 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dewey, Ken 1
Diggins, Dean 1
Doris Humphrey Society 1
Draper, Paul, 1909-1996 1
Duncan, Raymond, 1874-1966 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Egorova, Lubov Nikolaevna, 1880-1972 1
Ellis, Christine Du Boulay, 1923- 1
Ellis, Richard, 1918-2010 1
Ensemble Español 1
Ettlinger, Suzanne H. 1
Faidy, Abel, 1894-1965 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Fleming, Libby Komaiko 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Goodman family 1
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918 1
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996 1
Graff, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman, 1914-2009 1
Grimmer, Ann 1
Grimmer, Margot 1
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949 1
Hightower, Rosella 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Horst, Louis 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Huebert, Diana, 1899-1983 1
Illinois Ballet 1
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man 1
José Limón Dance Company 1
Kaye, Danny 1
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 1
Kazan, Elia 1
Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Koplin, Arthur 1
Koplin, Martha 1
Kraus, Alfredo 1
Kriza, John 1
Laurent, Robert, 1890-1970 1
League of Chicago Theatres 1
Lewis, Murray 1
Liberace, 1919-1987 1
Limón, José 1
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
Little Ballet Group 1
Litz, Katherine, -1978 1
Lookingglass Theatre Company 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 1
Marceau, Marcel 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance Company 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance School 1
Matsumoto, Kōshirō, 1870-1949 1
Matthews, Dorothy 1
Mattison Trio 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992 1
Mozen, Dorothy 1
Nargin, Daniel 1
Nikolais, Alwin 1
Nilsson, Birgit 1
Nimura, Yeichi, 1897-1979 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Communication 1
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 1
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