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Dance Collection Danse Archives maintains its collection in portfolios. These carry the name of the donor. We are currently building a catalogue for each portfolio using the Canadian Integrated Dance Database.
If you require more information or would like to book an appointment to visit the archives, please contact Amy Bowring, Director of Research, at , 416-365-3233, 1-800-665-5320 (toll free in Canada only).
Several collections are stored in the DCD Electronic Archives.
The following inventory provides a brief overview of some of the individual portfolios in the Collection.
As well, the Archives contains thousands of items including photographs, periodicals, house programs, news clippings, books, theatrical props, drawings, paintings, films, videotapes, artifacts and memorabilia related to Canadian theatrical dance and approximately 700 hours of oral histories.
In most cases, copies of paper documents, photographs and oral histories can be obtained by users. There are nominal charges for these services. (Scroll through the page at your leisure or use the following alphabetical links to skip down to the section that contains the name you are searching for.) PC indicates photocopied items, O indicates originals and E indicates electronic archives.
Search the Collection List by using the alphabetical links below
Aaron, Myrna (EA)
Born: Toronto, Ontario
Dancer (charter member) with National Ballet of Canada 1951-1955 and 1959-1961
Photo album of snap shots from National Ballet of Canada tours and productions during the 1950s (E)
Aaron, Susan (VF: 001.2008-0-1)
Born: Edmonton, Alberta
Dancer; choreographer
Photograph of Laine Metz’s students in Edmonton 1959; videotape of site-specific work by Susan Aaron 1975
Adams, David (VF: 002.2008-0-1, 002.2008-0-2, 002.2008-0-3)
Born: November 16, 1928, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Died: October 24, 2007, Stony Plain, Alberta
Dancer (charter member) with the Winnipeg Ballet Club and Winnipeg Ballet 1940s; choreographer; teacher; principal dancer (charter member) with National Ballet of Canada 1951-1964, London Festival Ballet and Royal Ballet 1960s
House programs for Winnipeg Ballet, 1941-1945 (PC); oral history; photographs (laser prints)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “David Adams” by Penelope Reed Doob
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 58, 60, 64, 66
Adams, Lawrence and Miriam (AR; OS)
Lawrence Adams Born: November 2, 1936, St. Boniface, Manitoba; Died: February 26, 2003, Toronto, Ontario
Miriam Adams (née Weinstein) Born: January 29, 1944, Toronto, Ontario
Dancers with National Ballet of Canada (Lawrence 1950s and 1960s; Miriam 1960s); Lawrence danced with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and Joffrey Ballet; choreographers; teachers; producers; videographers; publishers; archivists; founded 15 Dancers (1972); founded 15 Dance Laboratorium (1974); founded Visus Foundation (1974); founded Arts Television Centre (1980); initiated ENCORE! ENCORE! Reconstruction project (1983); founded Dance Collection Danse (1986)
Regarding performing careers: photographs, newspaper clippings; regarding 15 Dancers, 15 Dance Laboratorium: business records, photographs, publicity materials; regarding Visus Foundation: business records, video catalogue, videotapes; regarding Spill and Canadian Dance News: complete holdings, photographs; regarding Arts Television Centre: business records, correspondence; regarding Dance Collection Danse: business records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, publicity materials
See also ENCORE! ENCORE! reconstruction
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
Published entire catalogue
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Contributions to entire holdings
Agnew, Elsie (VF: 003.2008-0-1)
Born: July 1924, Toronto, Ontario; Died: May 19, 1999, Meaford, Ontario
National Ballet of Canada volunteer; painter; sculptor
Photographs; newspaper clippings; souvenir program for National Ballet Guild of Canada, Toronto Branch, “Giselle & a champagne supper” April 16, 1970
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 48
Alberta Ballet (VF: 004.2008-0-1)
Founded by Ruth Carse, Edmonton, Alberta, 1966
Newspaper clippings (PC); media kit (1997); Alberta Ballet newsletter “Balletin”; photograph of Alberta Ballet poster (O)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Alberta Ballet” by Pamela Anthony
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 63
Alexandrowicz, Conrad (VF: 005.2008-0-1; CR [videotapes])
Born: Toronto, Ontario
Director; writer; choreographer; artistic director of Wild Excursions Performance
Video collection of works by Conrad Alexandrowicz from 1985-1998 ( for complete list)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
This Passion: for the love of dance: “to be a serving task”: A Tribute to Patricia Fraser by Conrad Alexandrowicz, edited by Carol Anderson
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 44
Allan, Maud (AR)
Born: April 23, 1873, Toronto, Ontario; Died: October 19, 1956, Los Angeles, California
Dancer; choreographer
Includes donations from Dr. Felix Cherniavsky and from Mary Williamson
Memorabilia including Salome cigarettes, Salome corn plasters, Salome bisque nodder figurine, pennant; Donated by Felix Cherniavsky: Personal research collection of writer Dr. Felix Cherniavsky; newspaper and magazine clippings; photographs; house programs; Salome costumes; personal clothing and shoes; ivory clock; personal journals 1895-1897; correspondence; book: My Life and Dancing by Maud Allan; Donated by Mary Williamson: postcards
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Maud Allan” by Felix Cherniavsky
Maud Allan and Her Art by Felix Cherniavsky
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 23, 40, 44, 45
DCD WEB SITE LINKS
Pages in History: Maud Allan
Allan, Mauryne (VF: 006.2008-0-1)
Dancer; choreographer; teacher
Eulogy for Vancouver ballet teacher Mara McBirney
Anderson, Herbert (Bert) (AR: 007.2008-1-1)
Balletomane
Dance books. See DCD Library List.
Anderson, Carol (VF: 008.2008-0-1)
Born: January 17, 1951, Regina, Saskatchewan
Choreographer; dancer; teacher; writer; founding member of Dancemakers
Photographs of Carol Anderson and Dancemakers
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Carol Anderson” by Michael Crabb
Unfold: A Portrait of Peggy Baker by Carol Anderson
Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance, Part 1 by Carol Anderson
Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance, Part 2 by Carol Anderson
This Passion: for the love of dance edited by Carol Anderson
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues (writing by Carol Anderson) 27, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 41, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 65
Andrews, Ellen (VF: 010.2008-0-1)
Royal Academy of Dance teacher & examiner
Oral history regarding Josephine Slater and Norbert Vesak; photographs (PC); London Monthly Bulletin (PC); “Ted Shawn’s Fundamental Training Exercises” (PC)
Apinée, Irene (AR)
Born: May 26, 1924, Riga, Latvia
Dancer with National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, American Ballet Theatre and New York City Opera; teacher; co-founder of Gotshalks Halifax Ballet and its school (1949) with husband Jury Gotshalks
Oral history; house programs (PC); newspaper clippings (PC); photographs (PC); make-up case; Swan Lake tutu in original tutu garment bag; costume head pieces
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Irene Apinée” by Vincent Warrren
Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories: “Dance and the Outsiders: Ballet and Modern Dance Companies in Nova Scotia” by Pat Richards
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 19, 21
Armstrong, Kay (AR)
Born: September 22, 1921, Armstrong, British Columbia; Died: September 25, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia
Dancer; choreographer; teacher; founder of performing group Le Ballet Concert (1948) and the Kay Armstrong Vancouver Ballet School (1952)
Biography; photographs of Kay Armstrong and the Vancouver Ballet School c. 1940s & 1950s (O&PC); paintings of The Legend of the Black Swan 1957; house program for Vancouver Civic Ballet 1953 and Kay Armstrong Dance Theatre 1954; souvenir programs for Third and Fourth Canadian Ballet Festivals 1950 & 1952 (O&PC); RAD Gazette February 1, 1951; various magazine articles c. 1950s & 1960s (PC); oral history; correspondence containing biographical info; Black Swan audio cassette by composer Marjorie David; 8mm film of Etude and LP of music by Tchaikovsky; manuscript (untitled) by Beverly Craig Barclay that contains biographical information regarding Kay Armstrong and the Vancouver Ballet School; Vancouver Ballet School 20th Anniversary newsletter c. 1972
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Kay Armstrong” by Kaija Pepper
The Dance Teacher: A Biography of Kay Armstrong by Kaija Pepper
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 52, 59
Ambrose, Kay (CR)
Born: 1914, England; Died: 1971, London, England
Illustrator; designer; writer; often collaborated with Celia Franca
Books by Ambrose. See DCD Library List.
Arthur, Jack (VF: 013.2008-0-1)
Born: 1889, Scotland; Died: March 30,1971, Toronto, Ontario
Producer at Uptown Theatre, CBC Television; worked for Canadian National Exhibition Grandstand in Toronto as producer of the Grandstand shows 1952-1967; nicknamed “Mr. Showbusiness”; married to Margaret ‘Midge’ Arthur, founder and choreographer of the Canadettes
Donated by David Gardner
Newspaper clippings regarding Jack and Midge Arthur, CNE Grandstand shows, the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, Leon Leonidoff and Florence Rogge (PC); biographical notes
Aylett, Charles
Died: Toronto, Ontario, 1942
Photographer
Obituaries
Ayre, John (VF: 014.2008-0-1, 014.2008-0-2)
Born: November 25, 1947
Journalist; critic for Saturday Night, Macleans, The Globe and Mail
CV for Ayre; various articles by Ayre; biography of Boris Volkoff by Ayre; correspondence regarding Volkoff collection; correspondence between Volkoff and Adolph Bolm; house programs for Adolph Bolm Ballet 1928/29, Volkoff ballets 1930 (PC); newspaper clippings regarding Shea’s vaudeville shows 1931 & 1932, 1936 Berlin Olympics (O&PC) (DerTanz article in German and English with translation by Lucy Potts); reviews of Volkoff performances, Mary Wigman in Winnipeg 1933 (PC); photographs of Volkoff Berlin Olympics team; memorabilia of Berlin Olympics (PC); communiqués (O&PC); transcribed interview between Timothy Findley and Janet Baldwin (see Janet Baldwin) as part of research for Findley’s novel The Butterfly Plague (1966), in which the 1936 Berlin Olympics are discussed; business correspondence regarding Volkoff research
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 40, 62 (articles by John Ayre)
Babiak, Walter (VF: 015.2008-0-1)
Born: October 11, 1933, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Conductor; violinist; composer; arranger; assistant conductor with National Ballet of Canada
Personal correspondence (O)
Baker, Michael J. (VF: 016.2008-0-1)
Born: 1949, Edmonton, Alberta; Died: 2000, Toronto, Ontario
Composer; artistic director of ARRAYMUSIC
Obituary (O); newspaper clippings (O&PC); photographs (PC)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Music for Dance” (a list of Canadian composers and their works for dance) compiled by Michael J. Baker
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 50
Baker, Peggy (AR)
Born: October 22, 1952, Edmonton, Alberta
Dancer; choreographer; artistic director; teacher
Administrative archives (1991-1997); house programs (O); personal correspondence; publicity materials; article by Carol Anderson about Baker; National Ballet School with Peggy Baker Danceworks invitation 1999; postcards for Unfold by Carol Anderson; postcards for Unfold book launch; photographs; news release from Ontario Ministry of Culture “Peggy Baker Wins Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts”; correspondence; hand-written notes; Lar Lubovitch Dance Company DansCat project proposal; “The Danced Art of Peggy Baker” by Carol Anderson; posters (O&PC); VHS recording of Loin, tres loin
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Peggy Baker” by Michael Crabb
Unfold: A Portrait of Peggy Baker by Carol Anderson
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 65
Baker Adelman, Sara (AR)
Born: 1911, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Died: 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Dancer; choreographer; teacher
Photographs; newspaper clippings; advertising file from Clara Bergart (Cole); personal correspondence; house programs; additional notes provided by Barbara Donen (daughter)
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 24
Baldry, Michelle (VF: 017.2008-0-1)
Theatre Performance Dance student, Ryerson University
Research materials regarding Ginette Laurin’s work Full House including newspaper clippings and reviews (PC); email interview with Laurin; magazine articles
Baldwin, Janet (Volkoff) (AR)
Born: December 5, 1912, Toronto, Ontario; Died: September 28, 1990, Toronto, Ontario
Teacher; choreographer; organizer of Volkoff Canadian Ballet and 1949 Canadian Ballet Festival; opened Janet Balwin School of Ballet in Toronto 1950s
Photographs of Baldwin, Janet Balwin Ballet School (PC)(O); manuscript of biography of Janet Baldwin and Boris Volkoff written for Dance Ontario Award Dinner by Marguerite McLean; various biographical chronologies for Janet Balwin and Boris Volkoff including brief bios of former students and collaborators, correspondence containing factual information regarding Janet Baldwin and Boris Volkoff, preparation of the Second Canadian Ballet Festival and establishment of the Canadian Ballet Festival Association, letters of condolence following Boris Volkoff’s death (PC); documents regarding Boris Volkoff Exhibition at the Metro Toronto Library, on Volkoff being made a Member of the Order of Canada; newspaper and magazine clippings; souvenir programs; adjudications and business records pertaining to Canadian Ballet Festival 1949-1954 (PC); programs (PC); a “Brief on the Ballet” (c.1951) by Janet Volkoff; magazine articles regarding Volkoffs and careers; contact list of friends, artists and co-workers of Boris Volkoff, early 1970s; compilation of press commentaries regarding Boris Volkoff’s career in Canada; interview transcripts of oral histories recorded at DICA Conference 1984; proposal for a radio documentary about dance in Canada pre-The National Ballet of Canada by Pat Patterson 1984 (PC); house programs and newspaper clippings regarding Clarkson Ballet Group, Janet Baldwin Concert Ballet and Janet Baldwin School of Ballet recitals and performances late 1950s, 1961, 1971 (PC)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Janet Baldwin” by Clifford Collier
Estivale 2000: Canadian Dancing Bodies Then and Now: “Setting the Stage for Professionalization: The Canadian Ballet Festivals (1948-1954)” by Amy Bowring
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 2, 14, 18, 40, 45, 57, 62
Ballard, Stephanie (Noden) (VF: 018.2008-0-1)
Born: February 14, 1949, San Francisco, California
Dancer; choreographer; artistic director; teacher with School of Contemporary Dancers; artistic advisor and company manager for Margie Gillis Dance Foundation
Final report on the “Legacy Project” to Canada Council for the Arts and Manitoba Arts Council 1998; videotapes and video catalogue 1964-1978
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Stephanie Ballard” by Carol Anderson
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 57
Banff Centre (VF: 020.2008-0-1)
Educational institution founded in Banff, Alberta, in 1933 as an arm of the University of Alberta’s Department of Extension
Summer arts festival brochures 2007
See also Gweneth Lloyd
Barkley, Beverly (Craig) (VF: 021.2008-0-1)
Dancer with Royal Winnipeg Ballet 1960s
House programs for Royal Winnipeg Ballet 1966 and Stratford Theatre Festival 1966 (PC); newspaper clippings regarding Maria Lewis 1948 (PC), Lawrence Adams and Juanita Shiletto 1953 (O); photograph of Maria Lewis with Eva von Genscy 2003 (O); correspondence; photographs; regarding Carol Coulson: CV, photographs, newspaper article 1990
DCD WEB SITE LINKS
RWB Alunmi Page: Beverly Barkley
Barrett, Cynthia (Neuman) (VF: 022.2008-0-1, 022.2008-0-2)
Born: December 25, 1921, Toronto, Ontario; Died: October 1, 2006, Toronto, Ontario
Dancer; choreographer; teacher; artistic director of the Neo Classical Dance Theatre / New Dance Group of Canada 1940s
Musical scores for Canadiana (PC); photographs (O&PC); costume designs (PC); biography; house programs (PC); newspaper clippings (PC); personal correspondence (PC); oral history
DCD CATALOUGE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Cynthia Barrett” compiled from research by Pat Kaiser
Estivale 2000: Canadian Dancing Bodies Then and Now: “Setting the Stage for Professionalization: The Canadian Ballet Festivals (1948-1954)” by Amy Bowring
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 24
DCD WEB SITE LINKS
Pages in History: Cynthia Barrett
Beasley, Joseph E.
Dance books. See DCD Library List.
Beatty, “Pete” Eugenie/Isobel (née Holmstead) (VF: 023.2008-0-1, 023.2008-0-2, 023.2008-0-3)
Born: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; Died: 2007, Toronto, Ontario
National Ballet School of Canada volunteer; National Ballet of Canada’s Women’s Committee Chair; Toronto Junior League member
Souvenir programs for Anna Pavlova in Toronto 1924, Toronto Junior League Cabaret 1936, Stratford Festival 1953; house programs for Sailor’s Relief Fund in Port Dover 1917 (O), Mildred Marsh 1924 (O), Winnifred Fax 1925 (O), London’s Festival Ballet 1953; music scores 1920s (O); newspaper and magazine photo clippings of Anna Pavlova c. 1920s; miscellaneous newspaper clippings; correspondence with Bettina Byers; biographical notes; regarding National Ballet of Canada: volunteer membership list 1988/89, annual report, miscellaneous business papers, promotional materials, newsletters, 35th Anniversary Celebration souvenir program, photograph of National Ballet of Canada volunteers c. 1970s
Beatty, Patricia
Born: May 13, 1936, Toronto, Ontario
Dancer, choreographer; teacher; co-founder of Toronto Dance Theatre (1968)
Dancing the Goddess house programs; photographs; John Wyre obituary; correspondence; New Dance Group of Canada house program and newspaper clippings 1967
Behnan, Carol (VF: 024.2008-0-1)
Member of Cecchetti Society; ballet teacher
Research material on Jeanne Rodier who was a student of Mary Beetles and Betty Graham; danced and choreographed for Opera Guild of Montreal; taught for Mary Beetles
Biography; photographs (O); negatives; research paper titled “Strings: A short account of the early days of ballet in Quebec, from 1900 to 1960, leading to the gradual development of Cecchetti work in Montreal”
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 47 (article about Jeanne Rodier by Carol Behnan)
Belcher, Ernest (VF: 025.2008-0-1)
Choreographer; teacher in Los Angeles, California 1920s
House programs (O); newspaper clippings (O)
Bell, Ken (VF: 026.2008-0-1)
Born: 1915; Died: 2000
Photographer
Obituary (O); photographs within other portfolios belonging to National Ballet of Canada dancers (inquire for more information)
Bennie, Elsie (née Scraggs) (VF: 028.2008.0-1)
Born: Toronto, Ontario
Dancer in Winter Garden Shows at the Elgin Theatre 1924-1925
Photographs of Bennie, Lillian Alvarez, Toronto Royal Academy of Danceio Minstrels 1924/25, Bennie and Betty Ford 1982, interior of Elgin Theatre c. 1920 (PC)s; newspaper clippings regarding the revival of the Winter Garden Theatre 1981-1982 (PC); postcard of Bennie and Ford in Toronto Royal Academy of Danceio Minstrels c. 1920s (PC)
Bergart, Clara (Cole) (VF, 029.2008-0-1)
Dancer in Winnipeg 1930s; student of Sara Baker Adelman
Newspaper clippings regarding Celeste Dancing School and students of Sara Baker Adelman 1930s (PC); photographs of Clara Bergart and other students of Sara Baker Adelman (PC); house programs for Mary Wigman’s tour to Winnipeg January 1933 (PC), Celeste School of Dancing under the direction of Sara Baker Adelman and Gertrude Shtatleman May 1930 (PC), Sara Baker Adelman’s annual revues 1934 & 1936; biographical notes; oral history; correspondence
Bickle, Jack (VF: 030.2008-1-1; OS)
Born: 1913, Hamilton, Ontario; Died: September 23, 1996, Windsor, Ontario
Cecchetti dancer; choreographer; teacher at University of Windsor’s School of Dramatic Arts until 1985; founded Jack W. Bickle Ballet School in Windsor, Ontario 1940s; appeared in several Warner Brother’s motion pictures
Photographs 1920s-1950s (O&PC); oral history; biographical notes (PC); obituary (O); “Notes of Dance” from Dance Masters of America Conferences 1940-1960s; musical scores; Labanotation scores; Cecchetti Society newsletters and notices
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 43, 44
Biloshisky, Vera (VF: 032.2008-0-1)
Born: 1950, Toronto, Ontario
Independent dancer
Newspaper article about the life of a dancer and this dancer in particular c. 1970
Birdsall, Fanny (AR)
Born: Toronto, Ontario; Died 1991
Dancer; teacher; choreographer; opened school in Toronto (1923-1983) with sister Helen
Photographs; house programs; newspaper clippings; magazines; brochures; oral history
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
Toronto Dance Teachers, 1825-1925 by Mary Jane Warner
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 6, 9, 22, 23
Birdsall, Helen (AR)
Born: Toronto, Ontario; Died 1988
Dancer; teacher; opened school in Toronto (1923-1983) with sister Fanny
Photographs; house programs; newspaper clippings; magazines; brochures; oral history
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
Toronto Dance Teachers, 1825-1925 by Mary Jane Warner
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 6, 9
Bishop-Gwyn, Carol (RR)
Dance historian, journalist
Dance Research Journal Spring 1989, Autumn 1989, Spring 1990, Autumn 1990, Spring 1991, Autumn 1991; Dance Chronicle 1983; The Drama Review Fall 1984; Dance Perspectives Winter 1975
Black Crook, The (VF: 040.2008-0-1)
Program; musical score; article from The Dance September 1926
Blazer, Pearl (VF: 033.2008-0-1)
Dancer with Neo Dance Theatre (New Dance Theatre from 1949), Toronto, 1940s
House programs and promotional booklets for the New Dance Theatre, late 1940s-early 1950s (PC); newspaper clippings regarding Ballet Festivals, New Dance Theatre (PC); photographs (PC); biographies of Saida Gerrard and Nancy Lima Dent
Blewchamp, Anna (VF; AR)
Born: December 17, 1947, London, England
Dancer; choreographer; researcher; author; teacher; faculty member York University Department of Dance
Research materials and correspondence regarding Gweneth Lloyd’s The Wise Virgins 1942; academic writing by Blewchamp regarding Gweneth Lloyd; newspaper clippings and reviews regarding The Wise Virgins reconstruction (O&PC); drawing of the set of The Wise Virgins; house program for York University performance of The Wise Virgins 1992 (O&PC); program and notes for a speech/presentation given at the Last/Lost Dance Symposium of 1992 that gives a comprehensive history of The Wise Virgins reconstruction; CV & biographical info regarding Blewchamp late1990s; grant application materials (PC); personal correspondence; photographs of Gweneth Lloyd, Sheila McKay, Margaret Piasecki, Joan Johnston, Alvin Tolentino, Lisa Otto and Anna Blewchamp; comic book The Flames of Terpsichore, vol 1:1, 1:2; Flipix booklet “When the Pie was Opened”; articles on 15 Dance Lab 1975 and 1977 (PC); house program from Gaiety Theatre and RA Canadian Celebrity Concert Series, First Season, 1944
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Anna Blewchamp” by Carol Anderson
Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories: “Gweneth Lloyd and The Wise Virgins: Arguments for the Reconstruction of a Canadian Ballet” by Anna Blewchamp
This Passion: for the love of dance: “To dance beyond yourself: Peter Randazzo” by Anna Blewchamp
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 34 (about Anna Blewchamp), 42, 57 (articles by Anna Blewchamp)
Blok-Hanson, Willy (VF: 034.2008-0-1)
Born: 1916, Indonesia
Dancer; teacher; choreographer; exercise teacher; author; founder and director of Willy Blok-Hanson Dance Group 1950s
Articles (O&PC); reviews (PC); house programs (PC); scrapbook (PC); Canadian Living Magazine (O)
Blumenstein, Tobe (Herlick) (VF)
Born: Toronto, Ontario
Dancer; studied with Nora Griffiths
House programs for Nora Griffith’s annual recitals 1937, 1938 & 1941 (O)
Bolsby, James (aka Stewart James) (AR)
Died: December 25, 1998, Toronto, Ontario
Volkoff student and volunteer manager of Volkoff Canadian Ballet; first manager of National Ballet of Canada
Correspondence; newspaper clippings (O); photographs of dancers from Volkoff Canadian Ballet and National Ballet of Canada 1950s (O); negatives (O); house programs (O); publicity pamphlets 1950s (O); costume designs; costumes; sculpture by Elizabeth Wynn Wood; books; administrative file for Volkoff Canadian Ballet; administrative files regarding formation of National Ballet of Canada; National Ballet of Canada audition tour notes 1950
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 48
Boneham, Peter (VF)
Born: November 7, 1934, Rochester, New York
Artistic director or Le Groupe de la Place Royale (later Le Groupe Dance Lab); choreographer; teacher; dancer with Le Groupe de la Place Royale and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
John Martin reviews for The New York Times regarding the “American Dance” series, 1955 (O); magazine clipping regarding Dance News 1965 (O); photographs (E)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Peter Boneham” by Lai-Ling Lee
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 25, 61
Border Crossings (VF)
Society for Dance History Scholars/Association for Dance in Universities and Colleges in Canada 1995 Conference held at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ontario; included “Toronto Dancing Then and Now” exhibition at the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
Abstracts (O); biographies (O); program (O)
Border Crossings Magazine (VF)
Winnipeg-based arts magazine
Articles regarding dance (1990s) (PC)
Boss Lasserre, Madeleine (VF)
Born: 1901, Switzerland; Died: 1997, Toronto, Ontario
Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher; taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (later Royal Conservatory of Music)
Biography (PC); newspaper clippings (PC)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
Canadian Dance: Visions and Stories: “Music and Movement: The Overlapping Careers of Madeleine Boss Lasserre and Saida Gerrard” by Selma Landen Odom
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issue 46
Bowman, Elaine (AR)
Born: January 24, 1946, Stow Long, Huntingdonshire, England
Dancer; choreographer; administrator; producer; co-founder of Calgary’s Dancers’ Studio West
Periodicals; videotape; costume for Larry McKinnon’s Dance Sequences 1976
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Elaine Bowman” by Anne Flynn
Bowman, Rita (VF)
Photographs: 2 from unidentified Charlottetown Festival production, 2 National Ballet of Canada rehearsal shots of La Sylphide with Erik Bruhn and Celia Franca
Bowmanville Museum (VF)
Located in Bowmanville, Ontario
Regarding 19th-century and early 20th-century light opera productions in Bowmanville: house programs (PC); photographs (PC); newspaper clippings (PC)
Brattson, “Kitty” (VF)
Born: 1913, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Died: 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Tap dancer
Newspaper clippings (PC); personal correspondence; photographs; oral history; biography; obituary
Brayley, Sally (Bliss) (VF)
Born: c. mid-1930s, London, England
Dancer with Gotshalks Halifax Ballet 1940s, National Ballet of Canada 1950s, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera; artistic consultant to Dance Nova Scotia; co-founder of Joffrey II dancers; executive director of Dance St. Louis
5th Canadian Ballet Festival program 1953 (O)
Briggs, Anita (VF)
Dance enthusiast
Personal correspondence; photograph of Peggy Malone Spangler (O)
Brinson, Peter (VF)
Born: 1920, Llandudno, Wales; Died: 1995, England
Writer; lecturer
“The Brinson Report” about the state of professional ballet training in Canada studying the National Ballet School, Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Division, École supérieure de la danse du Québec 1975
Brown, Diana (AR)
Broadcaster
Transcripts for CBC program “The Dance” 1978-1979
Browne, Rachel (VF; CR)
Born: November 16, 1934, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dancer; choreographer; teacher; founder of Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers 1964
Videotapes (O)
DCD CATALOGUE LINKS
ETDC/EDTC: “Rachel Browne” by Jacqui Good
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 36, 57
Burns, Louise (VF)
Born: 1941
Toronto-based ballet dancer; teacher
Photograph (O)
Busday, Viola (Robertson) (VF)
Dancer with Winnipeg Ballet 1940s
Photographs of David Adams and Gweneth Lloyd (PC); school exams 1947 (PC); transcript of oral history 1999
Butko, Natalia (AR)
Born: 1920s, Toronto, Ontario; Died, April 1999, Toronto, Ontario
Dancer with Volkoff Canadian Ballet and National Ballet of Canada
Personal correspondence; scrapbooks dating from 1938; memorial booklet for Vancouver-born choreographer/actor David Toguri 1933-1997 (O); newspaper clippings, biography and obituary regarding Toguri (O)
DCD MAGAZINE LINKS
Issues 44, 48
Byers, Bettina (AR)
Born: December 18, 1909, Chatham, Ontario; Died: September 8, 2006, Victoria, British Columbia
Dancer; teacher; choreographer; first secretary for the Royal Academy of Dancing in Canada after studies in England in late 1930s; studied with Alison Sutcliffe; founder of the Academy of Ballet 1939; taught in Toronto and Kingston, Ontario, and Victoria, British Columbia
Newspaper and magazine clippings; Royal Academy of Dancing materials: Gazettes with “Canada land of promise” (magazine supplement), syllabi, certificates, annual reports, music books, Silver Jubilee record, RAD Bulletin October 1988, invitation list for Byers’s RAD Fellowship presentation; sheet music; photographs; oral history; costume; costume head piece; business records; class notes; choreographic notes; class records; correspondence; house programs for Alison Sutcliffe 1935, Bettina Byers Dance Recital, Ballet Club of Toronto, Academy of Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Schumann 1940-1967; scrapbook containing photographs 1935-1939; The Curtain Call March 31, 1931; Bettina Byers tribute by Herbert Whittaker; costume designs; hand-written notes; booklets A Primer of Classical Ballet (Cecchetti Method) for Children by Cyril W. Beaumont (1933), Canadian Collection of Dance Prints, Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec (1983), Notes on the National Dances (date unknown); correspondence from Adeline Genée (1941-1970) plus order of service for Genée’s funeral; drawing of dancer inscribed “To Miss Byers, with love Monki” (date unknown); inventory for Bettina Byers fonds at Toronto Reference Library; obituary; books (see DCD Library List)
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ETDC/EDTC: “Bettina Byers” by Clifford Collier
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