Research Catalog

  • Dance magazine awards, 1962 [sound recording] : Margot Fonteyn.

    • Audio
    • 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTL 4-2108Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Interview with Frederick Ashton and Anthony Dowell [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTC 3-324 [sound cassette] reel 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Dance magazine awards, 1962 [sound recording] : Isadora Bennett, Bob Fosse, and Margot Fonteyn.

    • Audio
    • 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTL 4-525Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Dance magazine awards, 1969 : Carolyn Brown, Ted Shawn and Frederick Ashton.

    • Audio
    • 1970.
    • 1970-525
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6788d530-3ba5-0134-44ae-60f81dd2b63c
  • A midsummer night's dream / Photograph by Angus McBean.

    • Still image
  • Tamara Karsavina.

    • Still image
    • London : [s.n.], c1971.
    • 1971
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image (S) *MGZEB (Karsavina, Tamara) Vol. 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image (S) *MGZEB (Karsavina, Tamara) Vol. 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Frederick Ashton: A real choreographer [videorecording] / BBC-TV ; co-produced in association with R.M. Productions ; written and produced by John Selwyn Gilbert.

    • Moving image
    • U.K. : BBC-TV, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIC 9-173Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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  • Les noces [videorecording]

    • Moving image
    • 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIDVD 5-5528Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Nijinska, a legend in dance [videorecording].

    • Moving image
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIDVD 5-2667Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Miscellaneous manuscripts.

    • Text
  • The art of Margot Fonteyn. [Photographed by Keith Money. With a commentary contributed by Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Keith Money, and Margot Fonteyn herself.

    • Text
    • New York, Reynal, 1966, c1965]
    • 1966-1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB (Fonteyn) 76-2363Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • [Souvenir program] Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter (Motion picture).

    • Text
    • New York, Souvenir Publishers [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZB (Royal Ballet souvenir program 1971)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The art of Margot Fonteyn. [Photographed by Keith Money. With a commentary contributed by Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Keith Money, and Margot Fonteyn herself.

    • Text
    • [London] Dance Books [1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB (Fonteyn) 77-1459Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A conversation with Sir Frederick Ashton.

    • Text
    • 1978
  • The range of the guard.

    • Text
    • 1983
  • Ashton at eighty.

    • Text
    • 1984
  • Opera ballet. Death in Venice. [Programs]

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZBPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Tales of Hoffmann (Motion picture) [Souvenir program]

    • Text
    • [London, 1951?]
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZB (Tales of Hoffman (Motion picture) souvenir program 1951?)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Opera ballet. Stravinsky. [Programs]

    • Text
    • New York, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZBPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Au revoir?

    • Text
    • 1970
  • Undine; Tagebuch eines Ballets.

    • Text
    • München, R. Piper [1959]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433015009602
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGTZ (Undine)Offsite
  • The Walter Toscanini Collection of research materials in dance: C1, CE, CE1.

    • Text
    • 1867-1953.
    • 1867-1953
  • Interviews with Margot Fonteyn, Frederick Ashton, Antoinette Sibley, David Wood, and Bethuel Webster [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • 1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTC 3-1884Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The dream [excerpts] [videorecording] / [presented by] the Joffrey Ballet ; choreography by Frederick Ashton, directed and staged by John Hart ; music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ; arranged by John Lanchbery.

    • Moving image
    • 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIDVD 5-1802Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Joffrey Ballet [videorecording].

    • Moving image
    • 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIDVD 5-1550Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Five Brahms waltzes / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1983 or later].
    • 1983-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-48c2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, five0002Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 420Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Illuminations / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1980 or later].
    • 1980-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-48c5-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, illu0007Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 437Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • La fille mal gardée / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1986 or later].
    • 1986-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-48cd-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, fill0007Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 540Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Les patineurs / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1977 or later].
    • 1977-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-48cf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, pati0003Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 573Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Undine [sound recording] : world premiere recording : complete recording / Hans Werner Henze.

    • Audio
    • Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, p1997.
    • 1997-1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 19778 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a05-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0001Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 288Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a06-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0002Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 289Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a07-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0003Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 290Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a08-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0004Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 291Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a09-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0005Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 292Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a0a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0006Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 293Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a0b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0007Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 294Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a0c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0008Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 295Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a0d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0009Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 296Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a0e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0010Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 297Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a0f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0011Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 298Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a10-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0012Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 299Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a11-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0013Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 300Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a12-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0014Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 301Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a13-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0015Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 302Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A wedding bouquet / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1978 or later].
    • 1978-199
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a14-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, wedd0016Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 303Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Five Brahms waltzes / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • [1983 or later].
    • 1983-199
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a82-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, five0001 *WDY 98-1, no. 419Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Illuminations / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a8b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, illu0001Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 431Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Illuminations / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a8c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, illu0002Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 432Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Illuminations / Herbert Migdoll, photographer.

    • Moving image
    • 1990.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4a8d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZKC 98-4742, illu0003Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Moving image *WDY 98-1, no. 433Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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