17 stories by "Arlene Yu"
Guest post by New York Public Library Short-Term Fellow Chantal Frankenbach, California State University, SacramentoThe American modern dancer Isadora Duncan (1877"1927) was one of the most …
Guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) and Ted Shawn (1891-1972), founding figures in the histo…
Guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) and Ted Shawn (1891-1972), founding figures in the histo…
This is a guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections,The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsSeason's greetings from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York P…
Guest post by Jennifer Eberhardt, Special Collections, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.This month marks the 50th anniversary of the performance series 9 Evenings: Theatre…
Isadora Duncan dancing La Marseillaise, 1917. Photo by Arnold Genthe. Image ID: isadora_0060va
It's April 9Â in Paris in the spring of 1916. The Battle of Verdun, one of the largest battl…
Florence Mills. Image ID: 5105186
In 1916, five years before her big break in Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical Shuffle Along, Florence Mills performed in Chicago's Panama Cafe as part…
In the beginning of February of 1916, a Los Angeles-based dance company was held over for an additional week of performances at the Palace Theatre, a top vaudeville house in New York. As rep…
Happy New Year! Rather than look back at 2015, we're going back 100 years for the first in a series of blog  posts featuring events in dance history from (about) 100 years ago. And I'm…
Summer is almost formally over and our fall work is already in full swing. There are a plethora of events at the New York Public Library revolving around dance to take you through the end of…
The Dance Division is ON FIRE this spring with programs and exhibitions featuring dance from around the world, all at the Library for the Performing Arts! An exhibit on flamenco, 100 Years o…
Dance is a subject on many people’s minds these days, with television series such as Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and America’s Best Dance Crew becoming fi…
150 years after her birth in Fullersburg, Illinois on January 15, 1862, Marie Louise "Loïe" Fuller is less well known than her peers. Yet her work, flowing and abstract and fr…
The headlines about her death called her the first African American ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera, but Janet Collins was much more than that. A new biography, Night’s Dancer: The…
A few weeks ago, the news broke that NYPL's Jerome Robbins Dance Division had received a major gift of materials from Mikhail Baryshnikov,* the celebrated dancer, actor, and founde…
...sometimes we write them too!
Just in time for the latest exhibition at the Library for the Performing Arts, Out of the shadows: The Fashion of Film Noir, we're proud to announce a ne…
In honor of April Fool's Day, I bring you an image of a jester and a ballerina which I found the other day in the Dance Division's photo collection. We don't know much about this photo,…
