Beliajus, Vytautas Finadar
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Audiovisual Material, 1924-1997
Series
Identifier: D017.02
Scope and Contents
This series contains audio-visual materials related to folk dancing owned by Vytautas Beliajus.
Dates:
Coverage: 1924-1997
Box 1: Workshop Materials, 1953-1994
File — Box D017.0001: Series D017.01 [Barcode: U186022113340]
Identifier: D017.01.0001
Abstract
This box contains the workshop materials and notes of Vytautas F. Beliajus. In this box are records from the 5th Annual California Kolo Festival 1956; 10th Annual Folk Dance Conference Aug 15-22, 1965; 12th Annual Folk Dance Camp Syllabus 1959; 12th Annual Folk Dance Conference Aug. 13-20, 1967; 18th Annual Folk Dance Camp July 25-August 7, 1965; Article about hip disease; Binder of sheet music labelled Sweet Notes A-L; Binder of sheet music labelled Sweet Notes Mc-YZ; Bulgarian Daichovo;...
Dates:
1953-1994
Box 2: VHS Tapes, 1924-1994
File — Box D017.0002: Series D017.02 [Barcode: U186023276222]
Identifier: D017.02.0002
Abstract
This box contains audio-visual materials owned by Vytautas Beliajus. Items in this box include the following:
VHS:
50th Anniversary Viltis Part, October 20, 1989
Maria Theresa 1924
Ricks College Clogging Workshop Oct. 25, 1991
Japan Fed. Dances at Festival Nov. 1, 1986
David Taylor Dance Theatre: Third Force (1985)/Los Los Penitentes (1988)/ Power Points (1988)/Pocket Calculator (1988)/Bushido(1988)/Five Particular Waltzes (1987)
David Parvin 1985...
Dates:
Coverage: 1924-1994
Box 3: Records, 1958-1997
File — Box D017.0003: Series D017.02 [Barcode: U186023276337]
Identifier: D017.02.0003
Abstract
This box contains audio-visual materials owned by Vytautas Beliajus. Items in this box include the following:
VHS: Polish Dances II Festival
Eurythmeum Stuttgart 1997 N. American Tour
7" records
Folkraft Troika/Korobushka
Folkraft Swedish Varsovienne/Neu Bayrische
RCA Victor Michael Herman's Folk Dance Orchestra: Seven Jumps (Denmark), Bingo (Scotland-America)/Virginia reel (America), Pop Goes the Weasel (America)
RCA Victor Michael...
Dates:
1958-1997
Vytautas Beliajus, 1982
Item
Identifier: D002.01.0001.0049.00001
Abstract
Vytautas Finadar Beliajus (right) enjoys a glass of wine with Denver Post dance critic, Glenn Giffin (left).
Dates:
1982
Vytautas F. Beliajus International Folk Dance Collection
Collection
Identifier: D017
Abstract
Vytatutas F. Beliajus was born in Lithuania in 1908 and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He became proficient in a wide range of folk dance styles from around the world and traveled around the country teaching folk dance, becoming known as the father of international folk dance in the United States. This collection includes periodicals and books related to folk dancing.
Dates:
1924-1997
Vytautas ''Vyts'' Beliajus at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1953
Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0081.00001
Abstract
Vytautas ''Vyts'' Finadar Beliajus sits with folk dance music in front of him at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Vyts Beliajus was known as the ''Father of International Folk Dancing in the United States'' and was a patient at the JCRS. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue...
Dates:
circa 1953
Workshop Materials and Notes, 1953-1973
Series
Identifier: D017.01
Scope and Contents
This series contains the workshop materials and notes from folk dance events owned by Vytautas Beliajus.
Dates:
1953-1973
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- Archival Object 7
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Folk dance music 5
- Audio-visual materials 3
- Workshops (Adult education) 3
- Dancers 2
- Photographs 2
- Colfax Avenue (Colo.) 1
- Colorado 1
- Composers 1
- Dance 1
- Denver (Colo.) 1
- Hospitals 1
- Jews 1
- Lithuania 1
- Patients 1
- Sanatoriums 1
- Sheet Music 1
- Spivak (Colo.) 1
- Tuberculosis 1 + ∧ less
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