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Title: North Carolina School of the Arts dance programs collection
Dates: 1911-1991
Collection number: PA Mss 92
Collection Size:
3 linear feet
(7 document boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Collection of dance programs, playbills, and clippings spanning the twentieth century.
Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
North Carolina School of the Arts dance programs collection. PA Mss 92, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection of dance programs, playbills, and souvenir programs spanning the twentieth century from teens to nineties. Several
files include American Ballet Theater programs from 1940 to 1991. Collection contains both U.S. dance troupes and overseas
touring troupes, representative of ballet and native dance troupes from Africa, Bali, Cambodia, France, Greece, Haiti, India,
Iran, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Yugoslavia. Programs often contain descriptions of regional
dances and practices.
Files contain clipping collections of dancers and artists related to dance, such as costumers/set designers Leon Bakst and
Horace Armistead, as well as subjects related to dance, such as stage setting and scenery; pictorial works; costume; ballet
and dancing depicted in art; ballet of the 20th century; cartoons and caricatures of dance.
This collection is divided into the following series: I. Dance troupe program files, II. Subject files, III. Dancers and artists
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Dance
Ballet
American Ballet Theatre
Ballets russes
Armistead, Horace
Bakst, Leon, 1866-1924
Programs
Clippings
Playbills