“All art is cultural expression, but none is more integrative than dance, which is made of our bodies—how we move, where we move, what we wear—to tell every story there is to tell of how we, humanity, live. This project is about black bodies that dance and, in doing so, tell a story that is about politics, sexuality, religion, economics, and mortality more than art.” Read more about Malaika Adero’s work with our Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
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Royal Danish Ballet School, Girl’s Class,1947. Photograph by Roger Wood.
Read up on one ballet student’s immersion in the history of Balanchine and Bournonville found in our collections.
We have a hand-painted copy of the two-volume portfolio of Bugaku costumes - the only known copy in the world of this Japanese Imperial treasure. Read more about its history and recent re-discovery in our collections.
The daughter of ballerina Irina Baronova decided to piece together her mother’s past through the massive collection of photographs and papers she left behind. Read her story here.
His name is Alexander Hamilton, and there’s a million things he hasn’t done, but just you wait, just you wait…
(Become a bigger Hamilton fan than you already are with our list of Hamilfacts.)
We’re so excited about this app! Two people took NYPL’s Photographic Views of New York City collection and turned it into an app that lets you see how places in all five boroughs looked in the past. Stand on Broadway today, see the same exact spot on Broadway in the 1800s. Incredible. Get it on iOs here.
We talked Prince’s bookish legacy and awesome authors NYPL’s Jessica Strand has interviewed over the years on the latest The Librarian Is In.
This National Photography Month, dive into the lives of 1970s Brooklynites with Dinanda H. Nooney’s photos.
