Ballet

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This collection contains programs and photos from Ballet Nouveau performances.

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

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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.

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Colorado Ballet, located in Denver, Colorado is a regional dance company that was conceived as a ballet school founded in 1951, by Denver natives Freidann Parker and Lillian Covillo. To showcase their students, they established Colorado Concert Ballet in 1961.

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The Denver (Civic) Ballet Guild started in conjunction with the Denver Civic Ballet Guild in 1958. It continues today to support ballet and interest in ballet in Denver. This collection contains board materials, materials on/from programs and events, President's notebooks, material ephemera, and posters from the Denver Ballet Guild.

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The Denver Civic Ballet was a semi-professional company consisting of local dancers that performed in Colorado from 1958 to 1979. This collection contains photographs, clippings, slides, programs, and other papers related to the Denver Civic Ballet.

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This collection contains (10) framed ballet prints donated by Henry Miles. Henry Miles was a dance professor at the Colorado State University and performed in ballets across Colorado.

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This collection contains choreography notes, programs, materials from various workshops and performances attended by Kathleen (Kathy) Hill, photos of Hill Academy of Dance and Dramatics (HADD) performances, dance related newspaper and magazine articles, personal correspondence, HADD board meeting notes, and scrapbooks.

Abstract The Larry Boyette Papers and Photograph Collection primarily contain an assortment of photographs: performance, studio and candids, relating to Boyette's career as a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet (ca.1947-1956), the (American) Ballet Theatre (1957-1959), and photographs from Boyette's tenure as an instructor of dance in his own Ballet Arts Studios in Denver and Boulder (1959-1984) and at the University of Colorado. The collection also includes personal photographs (taken by...

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Lillian Covillo was an alumna of the University of Denver who co-founded the Colorado Ballet along with Freidann Parker. This collection includes photos, programs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and ephemera related to Covillo and Parker's dance work and teaching.