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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Ruth Clark Lert Dance Library and Archive, 1831-1994 (bulk 1950-1980)
Collection number:
MS-P009
Collector:
Lert, Ruth Clark
Extent:
Number of containers: 65 document boxes, 3 shoe boxes, 8 record cartons, 10 flat boxes and 12 oversized folders
Linear feet: 57
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract:
The Ruth Clark Lert Archive is a multimedia collection which documents dance history in
the twentieth century, primarily in the United States. Formats in the collection include:
audio recordings, video recordings, clippings, printed items, stamps, photographs,
posters, catalogues, broadsides, teaching materials, and theses and dissertations. Ruth
Clark Lert, a dance historian, critic and teacher, collected the materials over fifty
years, and the collection reflects both her broad interest in dance and her special
interests in dance therapy, movement for the handicapped, German dancers Harald
Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman, world dance, and dance in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Language:
English.
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