Subject Guide: Performing Arts

Alexander Turney Collection, AR 25475 [Digitized and available online]

This collection documents the personal experience of Alexander Turney with emphasis on his childhood in Berlin, his emigration to the United States, and his activities as a tango dancer later in life. Materials include a large amount of photographs, limited correspondence, clippings and programs related to tango dancing and an oral history interview transcript.

Papers of Felix and Judith Fibich, RG 534

Clippings, invitations, programs and other publicity materials pertaining to the Fibich's performances in Poland, France, Israel and the US.

Jill Gellerman Papers, RG 1126

Video tapes of Hasidic dance relating to the Satmar, Bobov, Lubavitch, and Stolin groups. Events include weddings, bar mitzvahs, farbrengens (special religious gatherings conducted by Lubavitcher Hasidim), religious holiday celebrations.

Marius Sznajderman Papers, RG 1945

The collection relates to Marius Sznajderman's career as a painter, printmaker, collage artist, constume, and set designer. Mainly comprised of print materials, including biographical details, press releases, catalogs, and art samples related to his exhibitions. Also includes ballet script by his uncle, S. L. Shneiderman; promotional materials for the Israeli dancer, Alix Taroff; programs, plot descriptions, costume, and set designs pertaining to the Felix Fibich Ballet (formerly, the Judith Berg and Felix Fibich Dance Company). Among the ballets featured in the collection are Ruth and Boaz, Ghetto, Hora, Slave, Chassidic Dance, Poet and Spirit, and Lullaby.

Artwork:

Anna Pavlova in "La Mort du Cygne". Drawing by Ernst Oppler. 78.244 [Digitized]

[Ballet dancer]. Drawing by William J. Glackens. 2017.10 [Digitized]

The Dancer Claudia Pawlowa. Drawing by Ernst Oppler. 78.253 [Digitized]

Danse Macabre. Woodcut. Michael Wolgemut. 78.1506a. [Digitized]

Lillebil Christensen V.  Drawing by Ernst Oppler. 78.739 [Digitized]

Nijinsky and Karsavina in "Le Spectre de la Rose". Drawing by Ernst Oppler. 78.254 [Digitized]

Nijinsky as Harlequin in Robert Schumann's Carnaval.  Drawing by Ernst Oppler. 78.254 [Digitized]

Photographs:

Jewish youth dancing the hora at Camp Wel-Met, October 1948. I-337.B14.F017.0335 [Digitized]

Junior class in natural dancing taught by Miss Pearl Solomon..., 1927. I-337.B10.F007.0116 [Digitized]

[Portrait photograph of Mary Wigman] 1929. F 004 part of AR 11135. [Digitized]

Refusenik Ballet Dancers Valery and Galina Panov. I-495 Series 1: Photographs taken in the USSR. [Digitized]

Ruth Harris: Dancing in costume. F 11957 part of AR 7278. [Digitized]

Ziegler, Hannelore: Entertainment; Dance. F 24250 part of AR 5605. [Digitized]

Printed Material:

Lincoln Kirstein 1907-1996: A Tribute / New York City Ballet School of American Ballet. Two-sided foldout.

Video:

Local television channels' reports on the Bolshoi Ballet performance in San Francisco, picketed by BACSJ (Part 1)
in Records of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal, I-505. [Digitized]