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Archive: August 2017 (2 Posts)

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A Musical Artifact Rediscovered for Nagrin and Starer’s Indeterminate Figure

Posted by: Libby Smigel

Last week we featured a guest post from summer Fellow Rachel McNellis who shared discoveries from her work with the Daniel Nagrin Collection. This week she links an unidentified score titled “Vanity” to one of Nagrin’s seminal dance works, Indeterminate Figure.   Daniel Nagrin, a renowned modern dancer with a humanist worldview, included this brief …

Posted in: Composers, Dance, Guest bloggers, Special Collections

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Severed Limbs and Other Findings in the Daniel Nagrin Collection

Posted by: Libby Smigel

The following is a guest post from Rachel McNellis, one of the Music Division’s summer Fellows. Dance Curator Libby Smigel introduces her. I have been delighted to have two Case Western Reserve University Fellows this summer, and am pleased to have Rachel McNellis share her experience working with the legacy materials of choreographer Daniel Nagrin. …

Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, Special Collections