Thursday, February 24, 2022
Yeichi Nimura in his Flag Dance, c. 1939. Constantine © Constantine Hassalevris. Jerome Robbins Dance Division photograph files,
call number *MGZEA (Nimura, Yeichi) no. 12.
To mark Asi…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:18PMMonday, May 1, 2017
Guest post by New York Public Library Short-Term Fellow Chantal Frankenbach, California State University, SacramentoThe American modern dancer Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) was one of the mos…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:31PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) and Ted Shawn (1891-1972), founding figures in the histo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:06AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) and Ted Shawn (1891-1972), founding figures in the histo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:06PMFriday, October 28, 2016
This is a guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections,The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsSeason’s greetings from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:12PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
Guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.This month marks the 50th anniversary of the performance series 9 Evenings: Theatre…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:06PMMonday, March 28, 2016
Isadora Duncan dancing La Marseillaise, 1917. Photo by Arnold Genthe. Image ID: isadora_0060va
It's April 9 in Paris in the spring of 1916. The Battle of Verdun, one of the largest battles…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:08PMMonday, February 22, 2016
Florence Mills. Image ID: 5105186
In 1916, five years before her big break in Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical Shuffle Along, Florence Mills performed in Chicago’s Panama Cafe as pa…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:46PMFriday, February 5, 2016
In the beginning of February of 1916, a Los Angeles-based dance company was held over for an additional week of performances at the Palace Theatre, a top vaudeville house in New York. As rep…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:16PMFriday, January 8, 2016
Happy New Year! Rather than look back at 2015, we’re going back 100 years for the first in a series of blog posts featuring events in dance history from (about) 100 years ago. And I’m…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:29PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Summer is almost formally over and our fall work is already in full swing. There are a plethora of events at the New York Public Library revolving around dance to take you through the end of…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:03PMMonday, February 11, 2013
The Dance Division is ON FIRE this spring with programs and exhibitions featuring dance from around the world, all at the Library for the Performing Arts! An exhibit on flamenco, 100 Years o…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:46AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Dance is a subject on many people’s minds these days, with television series such as Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and America’s Best Dance Crew becoming fi…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:31AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
150 years after her birth in Fullersburg, Illinois on January 15, 1862, Marie Louise "Loïe" Fuller is less well known than her peers. Yet her work, flowing and abstract and fr…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:21AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
The headlines about her death called her the first African American ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera, but Janet Collins was much more than that. A new biography, Night’s Dancer: The…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:33AMMonday, November 7, 2011
A few weeks ago, the news broke that NYPL's Jerome Robbins Dance Division had received a major gift of materials from Mikhail Baryshnikov,* the celebrated dancer, actor, and founde…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:09AMThursday, September 1, 2011
...sometimes we write them too!
Just in time for the latest exhibition at the Library for the Performing Arts, Out of the shadows: The Fashion of Film Noir, we're proud to announce a ne…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:56AMFriday, April 1, 2011
In honor of April Fool's Day, I bring you an image of a jester and a ballerina which I found the other day in the Dance Division's photo collection. We don't know much about this photo,…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:16AM 
