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The collection includes photographs, programs, and writings pertaining to dance and opera, particularly in the immediate post-war period in the Soviet Union. The Bolshoi Theatre and Kirov Ballet (then Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova, now known as Mariinsky Ballet) are well-represented

Nancy Topf was an influential teacher, choreographer, and dancer active in New York in the 1960s-1990s. Her work was featured in several prominent dance and arts journals. The materials in this collection document Topf's performances and teaching activities, particularly from 1970 until her passing in 1998. Materials include performance programs; correspondence; manuscripts and typescripts; interviews, publications, and press releases; and recordings of workshops, lectures, and movement classes; The collection also includes materials about the Topf Technique and other methods of body work and mind-body centering

The collection is divided into sub-collections: financial and development files (including materials related to Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation); administrative files (including correspondence, contracts, personnel records, touring files); photographic materials (including negatives, contact sheets, photographic prints; slides); press (reviews, newspaper clippings, interviews); programs; posters and promotional materials; choreographic, artistic and research notes; music scores; production and technical notes; audio visual materials (videocassettes, audiocassettes, compact discs, LP records, reel-to-reel videos; video logs; lighting, costume, and set designs); costumes; books used for research; personal and family notes, which include also Tharp's autobiograhical notes; Twyla Tharp's artwork

Includes files regarding general development of TTDF; TTDF history of achievement; individual files of members of the Board of Directors (arranged alphabetically); Board of Directors meetings minutes (arranged chronologically); fundraising files, private and corporate (arranged alphabetically by the donor or the corporation); fundraising in and outside New York City (arranged chronologically): these files include letters and forms of donations requests, letters of response, thank-you letters from TTDF

Includes reviews of Twyla Tharp's and Twyla Tharp and Dancers's performances both domestic and international, as well as reviews of Tharp's television programs; interviews with Tharp and her dancers; previews; announcements; feature articles providing a background on Tharp's artistic development. Some of the critics represented in this sub-collection are: Clive Barnes, Deborah Jowitt, Joan Acocella, Arlene Croce and Marcia Siegel

These Papers document the careers and dance companies of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. The dance companies include the Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais Dance Company (1989-2000), the Murray Louis Dance Company (1953-1990); the Nikolais Dance Theatre (1970s-1989), the Alwin Nikolais Dance Company (1960s) and the Playhouse Dance Company (1940s-1950s). The collection is arranged into 9 series including: Administrative series; Artistic series; Awards; Moving Image series; Personal Library series; Photographic series; Press and Promotion series; Sound Recording series; and miscellaneous. See finding aid for detailed contents. General contents include Itineraries and management files; choroscripts, illustrations, production papers, and writings; publications, scripts & transcripts; original films and videos; photographic prints and negatives; posters, playbills, and press cuttings; reel to reel tapes and CDs; costumed figurines, miscellaneous scores, illustrations and more

Choreographic notes for some of the dances choreographed by Twyla Tharp. The collection includes Tharp's notes, conceptual and/or descriptive notes, rehearsal notes, descriptions of movements, floor patterns, movement ideas, research materials such as articles, xeroxes from different books, rehearsal schedules, scripts/scenarios, some of them with Twyla's annotations and notes. Included also in the collection are notes and research done for apparently unfinished projects

Includes programs, calendars, pamphlets, souvenir catalogues, flyers, advertisements for almost all the dances choreographed by Twyla Tharp and performed by her company, Twyla Tharp and Dancers, along with dances by Tharp commissioned by other ballet companies, starting with Twyla's first appearance as a young dancer with Paul Taylor Dance Company at the American Dance Festival, Aug. 18, 1963

Includes correspondence and contracts regarding publication of Twyla Tharp's autobiography; contracts with theatres, itineraries, travel information; building search files; correspondence related to commissioned works by Twyla Tharp for other companies, such as Joffrey Ballet; legal materials; special parties, invitations and guest lists; files related to summer schools and workshops (auditions, schedules, application forms), such as Skidmore College, Saratoga N.Y., Lake Placid summer workshp, Ohio State University residency and workshop; lists of vendors; film, T.V. and video contracts; personnel materials (both artistic and administrative), such as contracts, resumes, application forms; fan mail; unsolicited submissions; publicity, press releases; program copies; chronology and history of achievement of Twyla Tharp and Dancers, as well as of the Foundation; materials related to special projects (such as Twyla Tharp Dance Calendar, 1987) and materials related to unfinished projects

Ephemera collected by Lim Fei Shen, mostly on dance performances. Some were choreographed and/or performed by her. It consists of materials such as postcard, brochures, flyers, program booklets and festival booklets