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Modern dance

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1018 Collections and/or Records:

Mapping Our Lives

 Item
Identifier: D002.01.0004.0049.00003
Abstract

The Speaking of Dance ensemble rehearses for the collaborative project ''Mapping Our Lives'' outside the Temple Events Center.

Dates: 1997

Maraiden Arts Colony, 1922

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Identifier: D018.01.0006.00054
Abstract

Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and dancers at the Maraiden Arts Colony in 1922. (Martha Graham, center, with back to tree.)

Dates: 1922

Marda Kirn Oral History, 2005-2006

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Identifier: D009.05.0005.00010
Abstract Marda Kirn recounts her early life in Connecticut where she started ballet class with Olga Terrasova. She stopped dancing in college but later took a ballet class with Larry Boyette and decided that she must be in dance. Kirn was not a performer, so she taught dance at the Community Free School in Boulder, Colorado where her interest in dance films, workshops, and presentation began. Kirn talks about her avid interest in dance presentation and how it expanded over the years. She became the...
Dates: 2005-2006

Marilyn Cohen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: D112
Abstract

Marilyn Cohen was a longtime dance teacher at CU Boulder in the Theatre and Dance Department. This collection covers her work with musical theater, dance courses/workshops she attended, and her teaching materials.

Dates: 1990-2007

Marilyn's Dance Instruction

 Series
Identifier: D112.02
Scope and Contents

This series includes notebooks and notes written by Marilyn Cohen.

Dates: 1990-2007

Marshall Brooks and Hanya Holm, 1963

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Identifier: D025.04.0001.0009.00006
Abstract

Marshall Brooks, photographer and Hanya Holm, modern dancer and choreographer sit together in the Brooks' backyard in Denver, Colorado. Hanya Holm (left) holds a spool of thread and Hanya Holm, while Brooks (right) runs the thread through his hands and looks towards photographer.

Dates: 1963

Marshall Brooks and Hanya Holm, 1963

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Identifier: D025.04.0001.0009.00007
Abstract

Marshall Brooks (right) and Hanya Holm (left) sit together and toast in the Brooks' backyard in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1963

Martha Graham

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Identifier: D002.01.0002.0084.00001
Abstract

Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham performs in an unidentified work in a photograph published in the Christian Science Monitor.

Dates: Date Unknown

Martha Graham at Bennington College, 1937

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Identifier: D026.01.0001.00001.00003.00003
Abstract

Modern dancer, educator, and choreographer Martha Graham sits outside at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Graham taught modern dance at Bennington School of the Dance at Bennington College, the first center for the study of modern dance in the United States of America, for six-week summer sessions from 1934 until 1948.

Dates: 1937

Martha Wilcox, circa 1930

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Identifier: D002.01.0004.0079.00001
Abstract

Martha Wilcox (standing back left), the woman who brought modern dance to Denver, in her studio with students.

Dates: circa 1930