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Scrapbook
#1: 1936-48 and 1949
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Scrapbook
#2: 1950-51
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Scrapbook
#3: 1952-53
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Scrapbook
#4: 1954
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Scrapbook
#5: 1955
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Scrapbook
#6: 1956
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Scrapbook
#7: 1957-58
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Scrapbook
#8: 1959-60
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Scrapbook
#9: unmarked (1961-62)
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Scrapbook
#10: 1963
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Scrapbook
#11: 1964-65 (in Box #3)
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Box
#2
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1.
Loose sheets: Index of Titles and Information for the Dance Notation
Record. Vol I-VI, 1945-55; |
2.
Folder: marked The Dance Notation Record, published by the DNB;
one newsletter entitled DNB a Non-Profit Organization
from Jan 1943; Dance Notation Record begins March 1943 vol 1 no
1, 2, 3, 4; vol 2 no 1, 2, 3, 4; vol 3 no 1, 2, 3, 4; vol 4 no 1
(special issue December 1947); vol 5 no 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; vol 6
no 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; |
3. Bound issues of The Dance Notation Record, vol 7 # 1, 2 May and
June 1956 through vol 11 no 4 fall to winter 1960 (appears to be
a complete set); |
4.
Individual bound volumes: Dance Notation Journal, vol 1 no 1 Jan
83, through vol 6 winter/spring 1988-89 (appears to be a complete
set); |
5.
Labanotator Folder #1: The Labanotator (DNB) no 1 December 1957
through no 13, 1963 (two copies of some issues); |
6.
Labanotator Folder #2: The Labanotator (DNB) no 14, 1963 through
no 25, 1965 (two copies of some issues); |
7.
Loose issue: Labanotator (Language of Dance Centre), no 26, January
1978; |
8.
Green 3 ring binder (issues have no hole punches): Labanotator (Language
of Dance Centre) no 33, April 1981 through no 77 October, 1994 (missing
no 43); |
9.
Green clip folder :
- Action!
Recording! newsletters from the Language of Dance Centre: no
5 February 1977; no 21 April 1981 through issue 39, October
1985; (missing no 22 of the Language of Dance Centre);
- Action!
Recording! newsletter from the Labanotation Institute: no 40
January 1986 through 59 are bound;
- loose
issues: no 60-61 July 1991 through no 76 December 1995 (missing
no 62);
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10.
DNB Newsletters Folder #1:
- begins
with July/August/September 1949, no 12, and goes through Summer/Fall
1955, no 20a;
- handwritten
list by Helen Priest Rogers that lists each issue, when they
were suspended, how they were numbered, and any missing pages
for Folders #1 and #2;
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11.
DNB Newsletters Folder #2: begins winter 1955, issues no 21 through
40 (missing no 28, 32, 33, 36-38); also April 1968 and April 21,
1969; |
12.
Newsletters Folder #3: spring 1971? and goes through fall 1990 (irregular
publication); |
13.
Teachers Bulletin Folder #1: copy #1 (no date); issue no 3,
April 1965; teacher training materials from 1964-66; |
14.
DNB Teachers Bulletin (red) Folder #2: no 1 (Feb. 1977), 3
(April 1978), 4 (June 1979), 5 (Mar 1980), 6 (May 1980), 7 (Nov
1980), 8 (June 1981), 10 (May 1982), fall 1988; |
15.
Folder marked Contract--Originals: contract forms (not completed); |
16.
Publications of the Bureau in chronological order as issued:
#1
Jan 1955-May 1955;
#2 May through August 1955;
#3 September through December 1955;
#4 January 1956 through December 1956;
#5 January 1957 through December 1957;
#6 August through December 1958;
#7 January 1961;
#8 September through December 1962;
#9 1964;
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17.
Loose materials
Publications:
- Dance
Techniques and Studies Book 1, 1950 (appears to be missing its
cover);
- Tracking,
Tracing, Marking, Pacinga catalog, Feb. 1982, curator
Ellen Schwartz;
- The
VRI Slide Library of Dance History Vol III/Dance notation, prepared
by Muriel Topaz and Patricia W. Rader, copyright 1985;
- Publications
from the DNB catalog (3 copies);
Gala
materials:
- invitations
and gala program for the DNB gala honoring Earl Ubell April
1989;
- invitations
for the DNB 50th Anniversary Celebration gala honoring Beverly
DAnne1990;
- invitation
and program for the Ninth Annual DNB award honoring Estelle
Sommers and Ann Hutchinson Guest, May 1991;
- The
American Palace Theatre brochure;
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1.
3 ring binder New Text XI-XX-XXIV: textbook revision;
typed pages with some pasted in text and examples (originals, typed
pages with pen and ink drawings), Chapter 11, Sept. 1968Chapter
24, Appendices A-E with notes by Lucy Venable, Jan. 69; (pasted
incoming unglued and darkening); Chapter 17 ends with cancellation
for mixed supports with note following that Ann Hutchinson took
Chapter 17; |
2.
3 ring binder New Text I-X: textbook (May 1968) text
book revision Chapter 1-10, with introduction; xerox copy with
some pasted on additions/revisions except chapter 5 [marked to
come after (interwoven turns)] which is typed original with pen
and ink drawings;
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3.
3 ring binder FYI: misc. articles, newsletters and letters
1968-69 from the DNB offsite storage; |
4.
3 ring binder (black) unmarked: general letters of recommendation
(1976) for support of the DNB and its services from choreographers
and dance organizations; appears to be copies rather than originals;
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5.
3 ring binder marked releases: press releases from 1963-1968,
one from 1969; |
6.
3 ring binder (blue) marked Advanced correspondence course:
no date, notation is pre-1968 textbook, lessons 11-20; notation
appears to be no later than the 1950s or early 1960s
due to long bar lines in the notation and signs; for further dating
a sheet at the beginning gives DNB address on 8 E. 12 St. in NYC;
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7.
3 ring binder marked TAP: Technical Advisory Panel
reports, memos, notes and minutes 1968-1971;
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8.
larger spiral binder (cover of binder has come apart and articles
are in plastic sleeves) marked DNB Founding Personalities
Early History 1940-1950: includes clippings, photos, most
seem to be copies not originals;
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9.
series of DNB scrapbooks, 3 ring binder 1964-1965: focus on dance
courses and dance in education, but not entirely;
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10.
photo album of the First Institute of Court Dance 1970 at Lake
Fairley Camp in Ely, Vermont; black and white photos by Helen
P. Rogers, unidentified (plastic sleeves and glued self-stick
surface);
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11.
3 ring binder unidentified: misc. reports, articles from 1968-1971:
- report
on regional reconstruction plan May 1971;
- report
ad hoc committee for the formation of a Labanotation division,
duties of technical committee: executive director, president,
sales, budgets, 1968, 1969;
- report
from Effort division May 1968, proposal for writing project
summer 1968,
- report
from Effort/Shape division June 1968, fundraisingvarious
letters, minutes, June 1968;
- by-laws
1959-1966
- certificate
of Incorporation February, 1952;
- officers
and board members from 1969;
- reprint
from Nov, 1961 issue of Madamoiselle magazine. Ballets
in Symbol: Dance Notation;
- letters
and plans for the IBM Labanotation ball;
- list
of certified teachers 1966;
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Box
3 (File Folders/Envelopes)
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1.
Publication Proposals 1977-78;
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2.
Application for the program in Labananalysis 1979 (Labananalysis
copy);
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3.
Copyright Joan Fitzgerald: copyright law symposium
1967 article Choreography and Copyright by Gary D.
Ordway, from American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
(ASCAP) Columbia U. P., NY 1967; folder also includes gray folder
with info on copyright from Library of Congress, and misc., 1967
bill S597 for the general revision of copyright law;
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4.
1979-81 DNB courses and programs, misc. articles; folder is marked
DNB Courses and Programs;
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5.
Grant Letter 100 Greatest Works: board minutes, notes
and plans 1974-1975, 100 Greatest Dance Works: The Masterwork
Collection, request for collaborative funding; many duplicates,
letter to the NEA, financial statement from 1974
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6.
Publications 1967-: DNB minutes and activities 1967;
one newsletter;
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7.
JOHPER Nov/Dec 1965 Journal of Health Physical Education
Recreation not in a folder;
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8.
Humphrey Book Promotion: for Doris Humphrey the Collected
Works, Volume One; including reviews in DRJ and Dance Chronicle;
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9.
Articles on DNB: 1975-76;
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10.
Kestenbergs Role of Movement Patterns and Development:
publication notes and correspondence;
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11.
Envelope marked Archival material 1981 from Gill Miller
from Denison University: articles and press releases mostly
1981;
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12.
Program from Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre: founder and artistic director
Nicholas Petrov;
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13.
Unmarked folder: looks like book orders, Art Management Newsletters
1967-68;
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14.
Hilton Books: notes on notation and correspondence
with Muriel Topaz and Ann Hutchinson; mail manilla envelope; notation
by Mairelle Backer;
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15.
Unmarked folder: International Registry of Teachers; letters 1976collection
of letters with whom the Bureau has been associated-copies; correspondence
course assignments; DNB newsletter from August, 1978; misc.;
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16.
Unmarked folder: seems to be related to the Kestenberg Role of
Movement Patterns and Developmentsee folder #10;
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17.
Unmarked folder: misc. includes letter from Muriel Topaz to Helen
P. Rogers re official historian for DNB dated Sept.,1981;
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18.
Unmarked envelope: a series of articles on Benesh and other movement
notation, reprints from the Dancing Times March-July 1968;
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19.
Unmarked folder: photo, misc.;
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20.
Photograph: Eve Gentry in The Good Neighbor with notation
of pose; photo by Don. M Hatfield (8 x 10)glueneeds
acid free folder;
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