Pola Nirenska collection
Published: 1910
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10408
Subjects: Correspondence; Dance; Choreography; Choreographers; Dancers
Description: Correspondence, choreographic notes, music manuscripts, poetry, biographical materials including interviews, articles, reviews, and newspaper clippings, programs, publicity materials such as flyers and posters, scrapbooks, art work, photographic material, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Nirenska's career as a dancer, choreographer, and educator in the United States.  The bulk of the collection consists of photographic material.  Choreographic notes include those for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalpyse and art work is from Nirenska's early career in Europe and includes costume designs, drawings, and paintings.

Correspondents include Evelyn de la Tour, Martha Graham, Louis Horst, Doris Humphrey, Kurt Jooss, Harald Kreutzberg, Rudolf von Laban, Phyllis Legters, Liz Lerman, Dorothy Gifford Madden, Beth Osgood (Chanock), Nicole Pierson, Naima Prevots, Ronald Reagan, Rona Sande, Walter Sorell, Erika Thimey, Jan Tievsky, Jan Veen, Mary Wigman, and Sharon Wyrrick.
Notes: Open to research.

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Pola Nirenska Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Acquisition, Jan Karski, 1993.

housed in Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Choreographer, dancer, and educator.  Born 1910; died 1992.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu006003