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Collection: Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Papers Mss 181 Series 10: Materials from other donors Sub series 10.4 Shirley Wimmer Summary: Materials include company brochures, programs and publications. The dates range from the 1920’s – 1970’s. These resources were donated on behalf of Shirley Wimmer. Box 1 Folder 6 Company Brochures Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, 1925-1926 Uday Shan-Kar and his company of Hindu Dancers & Musicians, 1932 Martha Graham, 1936 Shan-Kar and his Hindu Ballet, 1937 Ballet Theatre, 1949 Chrysalis, Mime Theatre of Etienne Decroux, 1949 Uday Shankar and his Hindu Ballet, 1950 Martha Graham and her dance company, 1953 Little Ballet Troupe, 1953 Bip, Marcel Marceau, 1955 Moiseyev Dance Company from Moscow, 1958-1959 Martha Graham and dance company, 1963-1964 Finngymnasts and their native land, 1964 Folder 7 Company Brochures Erick Hawkins, 1964 Martha Graham Dance Company (2 copies), 1966 Ballet Africains, 1966-1967 Paul Taylor Dance Company, 1967 Harness Ballet, 1968 New York City Ballet, 1976 Les danseurs Africains, l’ensemble national du Mali, n.d. Ballet folklorico de Mexico, n.d. Folder 8 Programs American Dance Festival, 1948, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965 Uday Shankar, January 24, 1950 Little Ballet Troupe, 1953 Marcel Marceau, February 26, 1953 Folder 8 Programs Martha Graham and her dance company, April 7, 1958 Moiseyev Dance Company, June 10, 1958 Louis Horst Memorial Program, August 16, 1964 Martha Graham Dance Company, November 3, 1966 Folder 9 Publications Excerpts from Das Mary Wigman Werk by Rudolph Bach, Dresden, 1933, translated by Tina Flade. (article) El penitente. Choreography by Martha Graham, Music by Louis Horst (music score) New York’s first ballet season, 1792, by Lillian Morre, NY Public Library, 1961. The modern dance: seven statements of belief: Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Erick Hawkins, Donald McKayle, Alwin Nikolais, Pauline Koner, Paul Taylor, edited b Selma Jeanne Cohen. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1969 American ballet theatre, 1940 – 1970, by Charles Payne, Rudar Litho, Inc, NY, NY, 1970. Dorris Humphrey: An artist first. Galley proofs. , n.p., 1972. Dance: Press voices from Germany and America, 1925 – 1938. n.p., 1980 Fiddler on the roof (souvenir program), n.p., n.d. .

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