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DNB Notated Theatrical Dances Catalog
DNB Online Digital Archive

DNB Notated Theatrical Dances Catalog

The long anticipated online catalog is now available to all our patrons to view and search our scores for educational, research, and performance purposes. This online catalog records extensive information covering notation, casting, production, music, media, archival, and permission and fee information.

DNB Notated Theatrical Dances Catalog

Development of the Online Catalog was supported by grants from:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

 
 


DNB Online Digital Archive

The aim of the DNB Online Digital Archive is to provide visual aids to stagers and teachers when selecting dance(s) that suit their preferences and needs in movement style, cast numbers, dancers' techniques, and/or choreography. There are a total of 66 dances with short excerpts of notation in PDF and moving image(s). All of these are open for educational and research purposes. Please contact Mei-Chen Lu, Director of Library Services, for educational and research use. Permission to stage the dances listed below vary in some cases. Please contact Alice Helpern, Director of Programs, for the fees and staging information.

The DNB has recently added to the Online Digital Archive performance excerpts of 31 dances from our score archive.  The new entries are highlighted in bold in the list that follows.  Each video excerpt is accompanied by a section of the Labanotation score documenting the dance’s signature movement phrases featured in the video.   The addition of 31 dances was supported, in part, by a Cultural Development Fund grant from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 

(The links in bold are newly added to the list as of June 2015.)

3 on a match (1982) by Victoria Uris
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Affectionate infirmities (1977) by Joan Woodbury
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Air for the G string (1928) by Doris Humphrey
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All fours (2003) by Mark Morris
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Angelitos Negros (1972) by Donald McKayle
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Ariadne (1985) by Zee'va Cohen
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Artifact II (1984) by William Forsythe
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Aubade (1976) by Carl Wolz
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Bach suite (1956) by Murray Louis
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Bamboo grove (1988) by Ku Ming-shen
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Beginnings (1983) by Choo San Goh
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The beloved (1948) by Lester Horton
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Billy the kid (1938) by Eugene Loring
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Bonsai (1979) by Moses Pendleton et al.
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Brahms waltzes (1913) by Isadora Duncan
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Brandenburg concerto No. 4 (1959) by Doris Humphrey and Ruth Currier
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Breakers (1986) by Victoria Uris
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La cachucha (1836) by Fanny Elssler
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Capers (1985) by Hanya Holm
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Caught (1982) by David Parsons
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Cereus (1971) by Antony Tudor
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Children on the hill (1982) by Moses Pendleton
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Choros I (1943) by Katherine Dunham
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Commonplace (1996) by Susan Hadley
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Continuo (1971) by Antony Tudor
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Continuous project: chair/pillow (1969) by Yvonne Rainer
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Dad's ties (1983) by Beverly Blossom
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Dances of Isadora Duncan by Isadora Duncan
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Dance of Walt Whitman (1958) by Helen Tamiris
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Dan's run penny supper (1968) by Dan Wagoner
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Day on earth (1947) by Doris Humphrey
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Death is the hunter (1975) by Erick Hawkins
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The demon machine (1924) Gertrude Bodenwieser
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The desperate heart (1943) by Valerie Bettis
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En dolor (1944) by Ethel Winter
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The envelope (1984) by David Parson
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Falling off the back porch (1983) by Clay Taliaferro
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Fandango (1963) by Antony Tudor
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Fever swamp (1983) by Bill T. Jones
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Figures and masks (1963) by Norman Walker
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Fire dance (2003) by Jessica Lindberg after Loie Fuller
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Folksay (1942) by Sophie Maslow
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A gift of wing (1969) by Rosalind Pierson
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Holiday in Israel (1953) by Fred Berk
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Homage to Mahler (1976) by Hanya Holm
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How long brethren? (1937) by Helen Tamiris
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I am the gate (1957) by Helen McGehee
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Indeterminate figure (1957) by Daniel Nagrin
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Inventions (1949) by Doris Humphrey
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Jigs 'n reels (1965) by Richard Englund
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Jocose (1984) by Hanya Holm
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Kaleidoscope (2005) by Peter Quanz
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Lacrymosa (1990) by Edward Stierle
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Lark ascending (1977) by Bruce Marks
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Legacy (1972) by Lin Hwai-min
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Little improvisations (1953) by Antony Tudor
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Lynchtown from Atavisms (1936) by Charles Weidman
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Lyric suite (1953) by Anna Sokolow
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Drink to me only with thine eyes from Missing persons (1981) by Senta Driver
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Moods (1975) by Anna Sokolow
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Negro spirituals (1965) by Helen Tamiris
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New Dance (1935) By Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey
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Variations and conclusion from New Dance (1935) by Doris Humphrey
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Opening Dance from Opus 51 (1938) by Charles Weidman
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Partita V (1942) by Doris Humphrey
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Passacaglia and fugue in c minor (1938) by Doris Humphrey
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Prey (2000) by Bebe Miller
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Primate (2006) by Robert Battle
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Rainbow 'round my shoulder (1959) by Donald McKayle
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Rainwood (1977) by Ze'eva Cohen
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Ratatat (1982) by Hanya Holm
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Resettings (1981) by Senta Driver
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Rooms (1972) by Anna Sokolow
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Rota (1975) by Hanya Holm
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El sarao de Venus (1992) by Alan Tjaarda Jones
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Scenes from the music of Charles Ives (1971) by Anna Sokolow
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Sea Dreams (1982) by Victoria Uris
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Settings and clearings (1985) by Mark Haim
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The shakers (1930) by Doris Humphrey
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A short lecture and demonstration of ragtime (1952) by Anna Sokolow
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Soaring (1920) by Doris Humphrey and Ruth St. Denis
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Soiree musicale (1938) by Antony Tudor
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Songs (1956) by Mary Anthony
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Steps of silence (1968) by Anna Sokolow
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Strange hero (1948) by Daniel Nagrin
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Sunflowers (1971) by Antony Tudor
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Sweet in the morning (1992) by Leni Wylliams
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Temple (1974) by Alwin Nikolais
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Three by three (1989) by Linda Crist
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Tone Poem (1981) by Fred Strickler
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Totem ancestor (1942) by Merce Cunningham
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The village I knew (1949) by Sophie Maslow
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Variations from day to day (1957) by Norman Walker
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What's remembered? (1983) by Rachel Lampert
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Witch dance (2006) by Bonnie Oda Homsey after Mary Wigman
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Women's song (1960) by Helen Tamiris
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Yes, Virginia. Another piano ballet (1976) by Peter Anastos
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