Posts from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Ideas to get your kids out of their chairs and engaging in active learning using our Digital Collections portal.

As we head into the school year—whatever form it may take—our thoughts turn to the boys and young men studying dance, who continue to face obstacles gaining acceptance for their pursuit of an art form we love. To celebrate their dedication, we're issuing our latest coloring book volume, of Men Dancing. Show your support for the men who dance!

We want to show you a great way to fill your island home with art.

Community-developed resources to help our community look at its past, assess and preserve the present, and plan for the future.

Images of non-human dancers from the natural world abound in our digitized prints, from the horse ballets beginning in the late sixteenth century to caricatures, both satiric and sweet, of humanoid animals and plants. We hope the images selected for our latest coloring book will bring a smile to your face and a spring in your step as you color them.

For this edition of our coloring books we're bringing you more winged creatures,

We're closing out Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with volume 3 of our coloring books, celebrating that heritage by featuring dance in Asia.

On Monday, May 11, Martha Graham’s birthday, the Library was thrilled to announce that the Jerome Robbins Dance Division is the new home of the trailblazing American choreographer’s archive.

Including genealogy, the performing arts, LGBT studies and more.

We hope just as dance inspired these and other artists to produce beautiful art, so too will your lives be brightened as you create your own versions of these masterpieces.

Many of you have found coloring to be a creative and relaxing activity at this time, and what better inspiration than images of dance?

The Dance Oral History Project consists of over 475 in-depth interviews that have been initiated and recorded by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division since 1974.

How do archival materials help researchers piece together impressions of historical performances? A guest post by Jessica Friedman, 2019 NYPL Short-term Research Fellow with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Barnard rising junior, Amelia Haynes, a political science major, diligently investigated the photo collection of Lisa Miller to clear the copyright for digitization. Through this process, she learned about the larger relationship between the Dance Division and rightsholders.

Barnard rising Junior, Maya Weiss, an architecture and dance double major, learned informal education theory to create a fixed education curriculum to be shared with students in the New York City public school system.

Dancer-choreographer Vasudevan tells of the fascinating connection observed between her contemporary work (and Indian background) and the work of Merce Cunningham.

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellow examines the visual design elements of select works from dancer and choreographer, Merce Cunningham.

Since 1974, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has been conducting a Dance Oral History Project with renowned dance professionals.  As the Oral History Archivist, I oversee this remarkable collection of over 450 voices and continue to add to it annually.  These unedited and in-depth audio interviews  capture the personalities, creative process, and relationships in the dance field that 

Dance practitioner, educator, and NYPL Research Fellow Justin Tornow discusses how groundbreaking choreographer Merce Cunningham integrated Zen principles into his work.