Ballet

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File contains various brochures and other papers of dancing schools.

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File contains notebooks with some dance notations from Maxine Williamson. Includes notes on "Swan Lake" abnd "Coppelia."

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File contains calendar book for 1949 with class notes written in, various hand written and typed pages for ballet class. File also contains a collection of classes developed and written by Maxine Williamson possibly for Dance Conventions.

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File contains copy 1 of dance notations for Les Sylphides, 37 pages. Notation concerning music order refers to Ballet Theatre Performance in April 1949. Second set of 3 hand written pages labeled "Corps Positions for Solo Variations, 'Les Sylphides'".

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File contains copy 2 of typed page notation for "Les Sylphides" (37 pages). Notation concerning music order refers to Ballet Theatre Performance in April 1949. This copy has the initials "MW" at the top, the cover page is different than the one from copy 1.

Abstract File contains news clippings. Maxine Lower went to NYC with Lillian Cushing and Martha Carson (and two other students) in the summer of 1927 and jointed the Mordkin Ballet where she appears as a Chester Hale Girl in the Schubert production of "Under the Red Robe". In October 1928 she performs with the Doris Niles Ballet at the Gallow Theatre in NYC. In 1929 dances at the Denham Theatre, Denver, CO. She may have been married and divorced from Milton Shrednik (1905-1957) KOA pianist and...

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File contains 11 x 14" photograph of Maxine Lower in a costime as a bat or possibly a bird. Photograph by Stoffel

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File contains studio portrait of Maxine Williamson and student. Maxine is placing the student's feet into "fifth" position. Photographed by Jafay in Denver, CO.

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File contains possible photographs of Maxine Lower (Alita Duncan) during her engagment at the Roxy Theatre in NYC.

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File contains two photographs of Maxine Williamson teaching ballet class. One appears to be in a Denver Public School gym class from the 1950's and the other from the 1980's and possibly in Littleton.