Research Catalog

Title

Mark Morris collection, 1965-1995.

Author

Flowers, Verla.

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Details

Description

1.5 linear ft. (229 folders) ; ill.

Summary

Organized in five series of folders, annotated by the compiler, and separately numbered: 1) 4 folders: Mark Morris chronology, Feb. 14, 1965-July 30, 1995, and correspondence with Verla Flowers about the collection; 2) 178 folders: programs, press clippings, photographs, etc. arranged in approximate chronological order; 3) 11 folders: supplementary files on Mark Morris, undated; 4) and 5) 36 folders: postcards and letters (photocopies) to Verla Flowers, including fifteen from Mark Morris.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Verla Flowers Halladay.

Subjects

• Verla Flowers Dance Arts
• Dancers > Scrapbooks
• Programs
• Mark Morris Dance Group
• Morris, Mark, 1956-
• Hard nut (Choreographic work : Morris)
• Scrapbooks > 1965-1995
• Choreographers > Biography
• Flowers, Verla
• Monnaie Dance Group/Mark Morris
• White Oak Dance Project

Genre/Form

• Scrapbooks – 1965-1995.
• Programs.

Note

• Documentation of the professional career and student life of American choreographer Mark Morris. Contains programs, press clippings, magazine articles, publicity photographs (b&w) and color xeroxes of photographs, program announcements, studio newsletters, and photocopies of correspondence and postcards.
• Compiled by Verla Flowers Halladay, dance teacher and director of Verla Flowers Dance Arts, a Seattle dance school where Mark Morris was a student from 1966 to 1976, and by Maxine Morris, his mother.
• Also includes material on various dance companies with which Morris has been associated, among them the Mark Morris Dance Group, Monnaie Dance Group/Mark Morris, and White Oak Dance Project.

Call Number

*MGZRC 6 (Morris, Mark)

OCLC

NYPY95-B3547

Author

Flowers, Verla. Collector

Title

Mark Morris collection, 1965-1995.

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Research Call Number

*MGZRC 6 (Morris Mark)