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University of Denver. The Dance Archive

 Organization

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

"Orpheus and Eurydice" Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: D088
Abstract The collection includes a pasted program of the event, 15 b/w original photographic portraits of Mary Wigman* (two large: 5 6/8 x 4 3/8, and 5 3/8 x 3 3/8", and 13 smaller: 3 3/8 x 2"), 9 silver gelatin prints showing the choregrapher amidst her dancers (2 x 3 3/8"), and two depicting German conductor Heinz Bongartz, with costume designer Gerda Schulte (4 1/2 x 3 2/8"). The remaining 166 photographs depict the path, development and flow of the opera from scene to scene. They feature Wigman's...
Dates: 1947

Palmer, Chuck, 2023

 File
Identifier: D009.22.0007.0039

Patricia Hoffman Oral History, 2023

 Item
Identifier: D009.22.0007.0037.00001

Patterson, Damien, 2023

 File
Identifier: D009.22.0007.0040
Abstract

This folder contains an oral history waiver signed by Damien Patterson.

Dates: 2023

Peter Davison Oral History, 2021

 Item
Identifier: D009.20.0007.0025.00001

Release Forms, 2018

 Series
Identifier: D114.01
Scope and Contents

This series contains the paperwork for the "Square Dance in the American West" interviews.

Dates: 2018

Sanders, Ann, 2021

 File
Identifier: D009.20.0007.0029

Sears Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M272
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Vera Sears (1912-2008), dance instructor at the University of Denver, and her husband Edwin Sears (1903-1964), a law professor at the University of Denver. The Sears family emigrated to the United States from Germany in the 1930s. These papers include correspondence, photographs, teaching materials, legal materials, clippings, dance notation notebooks, publications, scrapbooks, and audiovisual materials.

Dates: 1933-2002

"Sets in Order" and "Square Dancing"

 Collection
Identifier: P002
Abstract

Edited by Bob Osgood (1918-2003), "Sets in Order : the California magazine of square and round dancing" was published from 1948-1969. It was continued by "Square Dancing," from 1970-1985. The magazines covered modern Western square and round dance news, education and festivals, at first on the West Coast, later nationwide. The collection contains issues Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 1948)- v. 37, no. 12 (Dec. 1985).

Dates: 1948-1985

Southall, Larry, 2022

 File
Identifier: D009.21.0007.0035
Abstract

This folder contains an oral history waiver signed by Larry Southall.

Dates: 2022