Research Guides: Slavic and East European Archival Collections: Dance

Dance

Elizabeth Anderson-Ivantzova (1890-1973) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and teacher.
Sonia Arova (née Sonia Errio, 1927-2001) was a Bulgarian-born international ballet star and artistic director
Records of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo circa 1936-1978.
Irina Baronova (1919 -2008) was a Russian-born dancer, movie star, educator, and writer.
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948- ) is a Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor.
Adolph Bolm (1884-1951) was a Russian-born American ballet dancer and choreographer.
Oleg Briansky (1929-2021) was a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and artistic director, born in Belgium to Russian parents.
Aleksandra Danilova (1903-1997) was one of the premier dancers of the 20th-century and dance educator
Eugenia Delarova Doll (1911-1990) was a Russian-born ballet dancer, who performed with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and on Broadway.
Serge Diaghilev papers 1910-1929. This collection relates primarily to the last ten years of Les Ballets Russes of Serge Dyagilev.
Serge Diaghilev correspondence 1918?-1929. Originals letters, holographs, and typescripts, written primarily to Serge Diaghilev, covering many aspects of his life.
Isadora Duncan's collection of reviews and materials relating primarily to her performances in St. Petersburg and Moscow (1904-1905).
André Eglevsky (1917-1977) was a Russian-born ballet dancer and teacher.
Alexis Kosloff (circa 1888-1983) was a dancer, instructor, writer, and choreographer.
Joseph D. Lewitan and Eugenia Eduardova Collection 1918-1974. Joseph D. Lewitan, dance critic and founder of Der Tanz, and his wife, the former Maryinsky ballerina and ballet teacher Eugenia Eduardova were emigres from Russia.
Mikhail Mordkin (1880-1944) was a Russian dancer and teacher.
Nancy Van Norman Baer (1944-1998) was a curator of theater and dance for Moscow and San Francisco museums.
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer.
Maya Plisetskaya (1925-2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress.
Paul Szilard (1912-2013) was a Hungarian-born dancer, choreographer, and impresario.
Jelko Yuresha (1937-2020) was a Croatian-born British dancer, choreographer, and artist.
Igor Youskevitch (1912-1994) was a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.