Research Catalog
Costume designs
- Title
- Costume designs [graphic].
- Author
- Mercier, Laurence.
- Publication
- 1981.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Baker, Kent, 1964-1994.
- Description
- 1 drawing : graphite, watercolor, color; 36 x 28 cm.
- 26 items : photocopy, color ;
- Summary
- Costume designs, chiefly for Kent Baker and his modern dance company A Baker's Half Dozen. The design for Katydid connection (1981) is an original; the others are photocopies. The designs are labeled with the title and date of the choreographic work; some also identify the dancers (usually by first name only) and roles. Almost all include the designer's notations; fabric swatches are shown in the photocopies. Some designs contain multiple figures.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- The original drawing is initialed L.M.; some of the photocopied designs are initialed L.M. or signed L. Mercier.
- Source (note)
- Laurence Mercier
- Biography (note)
- Kent Baker was the founder and choreographer of A Baker's Half Dozen, the first professional modern dance company based in Brooklyn, New York, which was active from 1976 to 1988.
- Contents
- Katydid connection (1981), one original drawing -- Gallery (1981), four photocopies -- Careless lady blues (1982), six photocopies -- Winter touch (1983), one photocopy -- The span of time (1983), two photocopies -- Bagnik & friends (1984), four photocopies -- Soft sorcery (1985), four photocopies -- Melancholy (1985), one photocopy -- Insistent Rors[chach] (1986?), one photocopy -- [Unidentified work, man's costume labeled Kent Baker] (1986), one photocopy -- [Unidentified work], L.A.D.M.A.D., Newcomb Dance Company (spring 1993), two photocopies.
- Call Number
- *MGZGD Mer L Cos 1-27
- OCLC
- 824752299
- Author
- Mercier, Laurence. Costume designer
- Title
- Costume designs [graphic].
- Imprint
- 1981.
- Biography
- Kent Baker was the founder and choreographer of A Baker's Half Dozen, the first professional modern dance company based in Brooklyn, New York, which was active from 1976 to 1988.
- Local Note
- Received with Kent Baker papers, (S) *MGZMD 287.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- Gift; Laurence Mercier, 2009.
- Added Author
- Baker, Kent, 1964-1994. Collector
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGD Mer L Cos 1-27