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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 24 dances with short excerpts of notation in PDF/JPG 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 varies in some cases. Please contact Director of Programs for the fees and staging information.

Dances are listed in alphabatical order. Dance title is linked to Notated Theatrical Dances Catalog.

3 on a match
Bamboo grove
Bonsai
Caught
Creature on a journey
The desperate heart
Falling off the back porch
Fever swamp
Folksay
Hamadryad
Kaleidoscope
Lacrymosa
Little improvisations
Lynchtown from Atvisims
Negro Spirituals
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
Passage
Rainbow 'round my shoulder
Rainwood
Ratatat
Steps of silence
Strange hero
Sweet in the morning
What's remembered?


 


3 on a match (1982) by Victoria Uris

Notation by Virigina Doris (1992) PDF file PDF file

 

 



Bamboo grove (1988) by Ku Ming-shen

Notation by Mary Corey (1989-1990) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Bonsai (1979) by Moses Pendleton

Notation by Ilene Fox (1987-1988) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Caught (1982) by David Parsons

Notation by Rachelle Painick Tsachor (1988) PDF file

 

 



Creature on a journey (1943) by Jean Erdman

Notation by Mira Kim (2006-2007) PDF file

Moving image

 

 


The desperate heart (1943) by Valerie Bettis

Notation by Rose Anne Thom (1973-1976) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 


Falling off the back porch (1983) by Clay Taliaferro

Notation by Mary Corey (1983-1984) PDF file

Part of the DNB Educational Performance Collection

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Fever swamp (1983) by Bill T. Jones

Notation by Virigina Doris (1988) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Folksay (1942) by K. Wright Dunkley

Notation by K. Wright Dunkley (1972); revised by Odette Blum (1981, 1989, 2001, 2007) PDF file PDF file

Sweet Betsy

Aw Nuts

 



Hamadryad (1948) by Jean Erdman

Notation by Mira Kim (2006-2007) PDF file

Moving image

 

Kaleidoscope (2005) by Peter Quanz

Notation by Mira Kim (2011) PDF file PDF file

Quartet

Pas de duex and corps de ballet

 

Lacrymosa (1990) by Edward Stierle

Notation by Sandra Aberkalns (1995-1997) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Little improvisations (1953) by Antony Tudor

Notation by Carl Wolz (1961); revised by Muriel Topaz and Lynne Weber (1972-1974), Els Grenlinger (1990) and Topaz (1994) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Lynchtown from Atvaisms (1936) by Charles Weidman

Notation by Ann McKinley, Lucy Venable, assisted by Pauline de Groot (1960); revised by Els Grelinger (1985-1986); 2006 edition by Odette Blum PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

 

Negro spirituals (1965) by Helen Tamiris

Notation by Lucy Venable (1967) PDF file

Go down, Moses

Lil' David

 

 

Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (1938) by Doris Humphrey

Notation by Lucy Venable (1954-1955); revised by Venable (1957, 1971) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 



Passage (1946) by Jean Erdman

Notation by Mary Corey (2011) PDF file

Moving image

 

Rainbow 'round my shoulder (1959) by Donald McKayle

Notation by Mary Corey (1992-1993) PDF file PDF file

 

 

Rainwood (1977) by Ze'eva Cohen

Notation by Sandra Aberkalns (2009) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Ratatat (1982) by Hanya Holm

Notation by Ilene Fox (1984-1985) PDF file

excerpt (opening section)

excerpt (solo)

 

 

Steps of silence (1968) by Anna Sokolow

Notation by Ray Cook (1975) PDF file

excerpts

 

 

Strange hero (1948) by Daniel Nagrin

Notation by Terri Richards (1993) PDF file

excerpt A

excerpt B

 

Sweet in the morning (1992) by Lyni Wylliams

Notation by Leslie Rotman (2001); revised by Patty Delaney (2003) PDF file

 

 



What's remembered? (1983) by Rachel Lampert

Notation by Leslie Rotman (1983-1984) PDF file PDF file

Part of the DNB Educational Performance Collection