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Posted by: Libby Smigel
Announces the completed processing of the Benjamin Garber Papers and Garber's relationship with choreographer Martha Graham.
Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, New Acquisitions, Special Collections, Women in Dance
Posted by: Libby Smigel
The following is a guest post from Music Division scholar-volunteer K. Mitchell “Mitch” Snow, with an introduction from Dance Curator Libby Smigel. Readers of the Music Division’s In the Muse blog will have already met Mitch Snow through his posting on the Maxine Glorsky Papers. His scholarly pursuits have made him invaluable in many quarters …
Posted in: Composers, Dance, Guest bloggers, Special Collections
Posted by: Libby Smigel
The following is a guest post from K. Mitchell “Mitch” Snow, a scholar-volunteer in the Music Division. Dance Archivist Libby Smigel introduces him. Last August the Music Division was delighted to receive a major gift of career papers from award-winning stage manager Maxine Glorsky. While the Library of Congress is widely regarded as the destination …
Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, Special Collections, Women in Dance
Posted by: Libby Smigel
The following is a guest blog post from Dance Curator Libby Smigel and Howard University intern Jacquelyn “Jackie” Chin: The Music Division was selected to host one of the Library’s three spring internships from Howard University. Dance archivist Libby Smigel is working with Jacquelyn Chin on the Division’s Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Collection. A …
Posted in: African American History, Dance, Exhibitions, Guest bloggers, LGBTQ+, Special Collections, Staff Interviews
Posted by: Libby Smigel
The following is a second guest post from Stephanie Ruozzo, a doctoral candidate in musicology at Case Western Reserve University. As a summer CWRU Fellow in the Music Division, Stephanie organized the additions to the papers already held in the Marge Champion Collection. For this post, Stephanie highlights the variety and extent of documentation of …
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Posted by: Libby Smigel
The following is a guest post from Stephanie Ruozzo, one of the Music Division’s summer Fellows from Case Western Reserve University. Dance Curator Libby Smigel introduces her: Meet Stephanie Ruozzo, a doctoral candidate researching Jerome Kern as part of her doctoral studies in musicology. Stephanie is spending her summer as a CWRU Fellow consulting the …
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Posted by: Libby Smigel
The following is a guest post from Sophie Benn, one of the Music Division’s Fellows from Case Western Reserve University this past summer. Dance Archivist Libby Smigel introduces her. I’m beginning to believe that every dance historian could benefit from working alongside a dance-loving musicologist. This past summer graduate student Sophie Benn fit that role …
Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, Music for Dance, Special Collections
Posted by: Libby Smigel
The following is a guest post from Chava Lansky, one of the Music Division’s Fellows from this past summer. Dance Archivist Libby Smigel introduces her. Meet Chava Lansky, a recent graduate of Barnard College where she wrote a senior thesis on dance autobiographies. With her strong interest in dance history and research on Martha Graham’s …
Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, Jewish American History, Special Collections, Women in Dance
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