Dance

This collection contains audiovisual materials, clippings, posters, photos, and programs related to the beginnings of Boulder Ballet.

The Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop has taken place every summer in Boulder, CO. This collection contains programs, posters, mailers, clippings, and DVDs documenting the workshop through the years.

Carol Foster was a prima ballerina and soloist, born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Through high school, she danced in Denver Civic Ballet. After high school, Carol moved to New York City performing companies such as American Ballet Theatre and The Metropolitan Opera Ballet. This collection contains scrapbooks and costumes from Carol's time with Denver Civic Ballet.

Collection contains postcards found in with the Carson Brierly Giffin Dance Library Poster collection. The provenance of these items is unknown. Postcards show Spanish dance and the Bill Evans Dance company.

This collection materials related to the Perry-Mansfield Dance Camp along with personal papers of Charlotte Perry, Portia Mansfield, and Ingrid Wekerle. This collection includes administrative papers from the camp, papers about camp activities including scripts written by Charlotte Perry, publicity and outreach materials, audiovisual materials including photographs and albums, personal papers, and materials from Ken Proper. Materials are from the dates 1896-2024.

The Colorado Dance Alliance was a statewide organization beginning in 1980 whose mission was to foster and support dance in Colorado. This collection contains Colorado Dance Alliance newsletters shirts, and administrative materials from 1987 to 2011.

Ann Blessin was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and became involved in sacred dance in Denver, Colorado in 1969. She joined a sacred dance troupe led by Connie Fisher in 1970, and shortly afterward, Fisher and Blessin formed the Rocky Mountain Sacred Dance Guild. Blessin taught sacred dance at the Iliff School of Theology and was president of the National Sacred Dance Guild from 1993-1996. This collection contains videos, books, files, scrapbooks related to the Sacred Dance Guild.

Dance Bridge was established by the Boulder Arts Commission in 2003. It serves to centralize dance resources within Boulder. This collection contains materials used and created by Dance Bridge administratively and for their community programs.

This is an artificial collection that contains choregraphy and other forms of dance notes or notation for ballet, modern dance, and social dance (folk dance, square dance, ballroom dance).

This collection contains (1) large photo of two unidentified dancers and (1) VHS tape titled, "A Creative Community: An Integrated Approach to the Arts."