Research Catalog

Title

[Costume designs for the Theatre Dance Company] [graphic], 1937-1938 / George Bockman.

Author

Bockman, George.

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Details

Description

• 3 paintings on colored paper : watercolor, ink or graphite, color; 36 x 26 cm. or smaller.
• 1 painting on cardboard : watercolor, graphite, color ;
• 1 painting : watercolor, ink, graphite, color ;
• 1 painting on grey paper : gouache, ink, color ;

Summary

Costume designs for five modern dance works.

Subjects

• Bostock, Kenneth
• Theatre Dance Company
• Shearer, Sybil
• Dudley, Alice
• Costume design drawings

Genre/Form

Costume design drawings.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Signed.

Source (note)

• Estate of George Bockman

Biography (note)

• George Bockman, who died in 1979, was a dancer, choreographer, and stage designer. He was a founding member of the Theatre Dance Company, formed in 1937 by a group that included Alice Dudley, Eleanor King, Sybil Shearer, William Bales, Kenneth Bostock, and others. Their declared purpose was the creation of a synthesis of music, dance, and theater. The group presented its dance works in New York City until about 1939. Bockman contributed choreography and costume designs, and performed in his own and others' pieces.

Contents

• Two costume designs for A fable (choreography, Sybil Shearer; music, J. Parker Sondheimer), respectively labeled on the recto "Mister C." and "Mrs. M." and on the verso "Mr. Cat" and "Mrs. Cat." One costume design for Parade (choreography, Kenneth Bostock; music, Darius Milhaud). One costume design for Coronation, labeled "Robed" (choreography, George Bockman; music, Erik Satie). All of these works were first performed at the Colony Theatre, Ogunquit, Me., Colony Theatre, on Aug. 27, 1937.
• One costume design for Devotional (choreography, Alice Dudley; music, Claude Debussy), first performed at Kaufmann Auditorium, [92nd Street] YMHA, New York City, on Jan. 23, 1938. Though labeled on the verso "3 red skirts," it depicts the full-length figures of a man in a cassock and two kneeling women, with a half-length figure of a woman in the foreground.
• One costume design, identified on the verso as Heritage of heroes, possibly the same as Biography of a hero (choreography, George Bockman; music, Timothy Cheney), first performed at Kaufmann Auditorium, [92nd Street] YMHA, New York City, on Jan. 1, 1938. It depicts full-length figures of two adult women and a little girl and a little boy, both of the latter with hoops.

Call Number

*MGZGE Boc G Cos 1-6

OCLC

824609462

Author

Bockman, George.

Title

[Costume designs for the Theatre Dance Company] [graphic], 1937-1938 / George Bockman.

Biography

George Bockman, who died in 1979, was a dancer, choreographer, and stage designer. He was a founding member of the Theatre Dance Company, formed in 1937 by a group that included Alice Dudley, Eleanor King, Sybil Shearer, William Bales, Kenneth Bostock, and others. Their declared purpose was the creation of a synthesis of music, dance, and theater. The group presented its dance works in New York City until about 1939. Bockman contributed choreography and costume designs, and performed in his own and others' pieces.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Gift; Estate of George Bockman, 1980.

Research Call Number

*MGZGE Boc G Cos 1-6