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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

African Dance Interview Project Videos Now Available by Jan Schmidt, Curator, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Jerome Robbins Dance Division

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is pleased to announce that the five interviews documented with the Mertz Gilmore Foundation grant to record African choreographers and teachers are now on…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:12PM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive by Jan Schmidt

For some twenty years, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division curators have been speaking with Mikhail Baryshnikov, one of the most celebrated dancers of the Twentieth Century, about the possibil…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:08AM
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Homage to Jean Léon Destiné by Jan Schmidt

Jean Léon Destiné, master Haitian dancer, choreographer and drummer, died on January 22, 2013. The staff members of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division mourn his passing. And as …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:15AM

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