THE DANCE MUSEUM ARCHIVES

The archives contain Swedish and foreign programmes, press clippings and photographs, plus private archives. The collections also include several personal archives, of which the main ones are listed below.

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Archivist
Tel.: +46-8-441 76 52, fax: +46-8-20 06 02,
e-mail: info@dansmuseet.se

 
List of personal archives

Les Ballets Suédois
Correspondence, various documents, printed matter, press clippings, sheet music. 1920 – 1925

Rolf de Maré (Founder and director of Ballets Suédois, among other things)
Correspondence, various documents, press clippings, photographs (material partly intermingled with archives of Ballets Suédois). 1890s – 1960s

Jean Börlin (Ballets Suédois choreographer, dancer)
Correspondence, various documents, printed matter, press clippings, photographs (material partly intermingled with archives of Ballets Suédois). 1910s – 1930s

Carina Ari (dancer, choreographer)
Correspondence, various documents, printed matter, press clippings, photographs. 1920s – 1960s

Jenny Hasselquist (dancer, film actress, dance school proprietress). Correspondence, various documents, printed matter, press clippings, photographs. 1910s – 1960s

Lisa Steier (dancer, choreographer, ballet director at the Royal Stockholm Opera). Correspondence, notes, printed matter, press clippings, photographs. 1910s – 1920s

Birgit Cullberg (choreographer, with her own dance company)
Choreographic notes, press clippings, photographs. 1940s – 1980s

Holger Rosenquist (dance school)
Various documents, printed matter, press clippings, photographs. 1940s – 1980s

Kurt Jooss (choreographer, with his own dance company)
Correspondence, press clippings, photographs. 1930s – 1950s

Léon Bakst (artist, stage designer)
Correspondence. 1910s – 1920s

Alexander and Clothilde Sakharoff (dancers and choreographers, with their own dance school)
Programmes, press clippings. 1930s – 1940s

Archives Internationales de la Danse (A.I.D.)
An archive and museum which Rolf de Maré founded in Paris in 1931. Various documents, printed matter, press clippings. 1930s – 1940s

Dance Museum ”official archives”
Correspondence, documents relating to exhibitions, printed matter, press clippings, 1970s – .

Collection of programmes and other printed matter
Alphabetically arranged by name of person, group, work, theatre or subject.

Press clipping collection
Arranged on the same lines as the programme collection.