RepositoryUniversity of Roehampton: Archives and Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference NumberAHG/2/3/4
Creator NameAnn Hutchinson Guest and the Language of Dance Centre, London
Title[Ann Hutchinson Guest] Documents relating to a project to decipher Vaslav Nijinsky's dance notation system and to subsequently create and publish a Labanotated score for the ballet "L'Après-Midi d'un Faune" (choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky)
Date1977-1991
Extent2 boxes
DescriptionIncludes the following: - A letter (dated 1977) from Ann Hutchinson Guest to Romola Nijinsky [widow of Vaslav Nijinsky], and correspondence (dated 1984-1986) between Ann Hutchinson Guest and Irina Nijinska [niece of Vaslav Nijinsky], regarding Ann Hutchinson Guest's search for documents about Vaslav Nijinsky's dance notation system and his dance score for "L'Après-Midi d'un Faune". - Documents, dated 1979-1991, relating to funding for the project provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, [USA], including correspondence, applications for funding, requests for payment, project plans, project reports and project budgets. - Further documents, dated 1984-c1990 relating to funding for the project, including notes regarding expenditure and budget planning, staff time sheets, invoices, and correspondence between Ann Hutchinson Guest and other potential funding bodies. - Correspondence, dated 1986, between Ann Hutchinson Guest and potential referees to support funding applications for the project. - Correspondence and documents, dated 1990-1991, relating to the collecting of permissions to publish copyrighted material alongside the Labanotated score. - Draft copies and photographic copies, dated c1990-c1991, of illustrations intended to be published alongside the Labanotated score. - Draft copies, dated 1990-c1991, of the introductory material to be published alongside the Labanotated score. (Some of the draft copies are annotated with corrections, or have accompanying sheets listing corrections; these corrections were written in c1990.) - Draft plans, dated c1990, showing potential page layouts for the Labanotated score. - Draft proof copies of some pages from the publication, with annotations and corrections by Claudia [Jeschke], Jane [Dulieu] and [Ann Hutchinson Guest?]; draft proof copies and annotations made 1991. [The Labanotated score was later published by Gordon and Breach in 1991.]
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