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This collection primarily documents the Delia Stewart Dance Company, which operated in Houston in the 1980s. However, it also includes material from Delia Stewart's early life and career in dance. Materials date from the early 1950s through the early 1990s, with a bulk from the 1980s, and include programs, photos, news clippings, and marketing materials.

Scope and Contents This collection contains approximately 5 linear feet, dating from approximately 1940-2012, of correspondence, news clippings, photographs, awards and other archival records related the life and career of dancer and dance instructor Mary Martha Lappe. It documents her early career in academic dance programs at James Madison University, LSU, and UH, and as founder and director of the dance program at High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA). The collection contains documentation...

Content Description The Karen Stokes Papers documents her research, achievements, promotions, course programming, correspondence, grants, and hand-written notes that covers Stokes career in academia and her personal projects including the Travesty Dance Group. The collection includes the Choreography in Action Distance Education course project and DVD’s from 2002, and also include photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs, and notes dated from 1972-2017. Collection provided by Karen Stokes, Director of...

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The Tatiana Semenova papers consist of seven boxes of personal material dating from 1933 to 1997. It documents Madame Semenova's early dancing career with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and her later teaching career in Baton Rouge and Houston. There are five series in this collection: Scrapbooks, Photographs, Personal, Programs, and Realia. The collection was received in no particular order. The processor has imposed the arrangement.