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Choreographer Deborah Hay’s archive goes to the Harry Ransom Center

October 13, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

Award-winning choreographer Deborah Hay has established her archive at the Harry Ransom Center, a major destination for the study of dance and performance at The University of Texas at Austin. A founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, Hay is recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of post-modern dance. [Read more…] about Choreographer Deborah Hay’s archive goes to the Harry Ransom Center

Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Acquisitions, choreography, dance, experimental dance

The life of a dance costume, from the inside out

March 27, 2017 - Jill Morena

Shaping the fosshape form with heat guns

A costume worn for the Ballets Russes’s production of Narcisse, currently on display in the exhibition Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, presents an intriguing glimpse into behind-the-scenes work at the dance company that electrified pre-World War I audiences in Europe and beyond. [Read more…] about The life of a dance costume, from the inside out

Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Apryl Sullivan, Ballets Russes, corset, costume, dance, Ethafoam, exhibition, Fosshape, garment, Jill Morena, mannequin, Narcisse, Rigilene, seamstress, Stories to Tell

New digital collection of The Black Crook musical released

September 8, 2016 - Eric Colleary

Cover of sheet music for "The Black Crook Waltzes,” 1867.

The Harry Ransom Center is proud to announce that our collection of materials relating to the 1866 megamusical The Black Crook has been fully digitized in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the production. The collection is now publicly available through our online Digital Collections gallery. [Read more…] about New digital collection of The Black Crook musical released

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Abrons Art Center, Art, Broadway, culture, dance, Edwin Forrest, Eric Colleary, performing art, stage, The Black Crook, theater, theatre, William Charles Macready

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