872 results for: Performing Arts and Music
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Dancer Antonia Wheeler performing in "The Nutcracker," Seattle, December 6, 1983
The Seattle Children’s Ballet Company was a ballet company in Seattle led by choreographer and author Laura Nielson Denke, a former choreography teacher at Seattle Pacific University.In this image Antonia Wheeler, 12, a member of The Seattle Children’s Ballet Company, performs part of the much-loved second act of "The Nutcracker" at Rainier Square Atrium. Caption information source: http://www.victorystudios.com/our-historyCaption information also…
ID Number:2000.107.013.19.01
Date:1983
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PNB dancers at "The Nutcracker" rehearsal, Seattle, December 16, 1980
Pacific Northwest Ballet, one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States, was founded in 1972. In July 2005, Peter Boal became artistic director, succeeding Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, artistic directors since 1977. The company is especially known for its performance of the Stowell/Maurice Sendak adaptation of the "The Nutcracker," which it presented from…
ID Number:2000.107.013.19.02
Date:1980
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Behind the curtain during intermission at PNB's "The Nutcracker," Seattle, December 9, 1990
Pacific Northwest Ballet, one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States, was founded in 1972. In July 2005, Peter Boal became artistic director, succeeding Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, artistic directors since 1977. The company is especially known for its performance of the Stowell/Maurice Sendak adaptation of the "The Nutcracker," which it presented from…
ID Number:2000.107.013.19.03
Date:1990
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Nutcracker dancer Freedom Ozog backstage at PNB, Seattle, December 14, 1986
Pacific Northwest Ballet, one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States, was founded in 1972. In July 2005, Peter Boal became artistic director, succeeding Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, artistic directors since 1977. The company is especially known for its performance of the Stowell/Maurice Sendak adaptation of the "The Nutcracker," which it presented from…
ID Number:2000.107.013.19.04
Date:1986
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Sherri Thompson unpacks PNB's costumes for "The Nutcracker," Seattle, November 24, 1992
Pacific Northwest Ballet, one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States, was founded in 1972. In July 2005, Peter Boal became artistic director, succeeding Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, artistic directors since 1977. The company is especially known for its performance of the Stowell/Maurice Sendak adaptation of the "The Nutcracker," which it presented from…
ID Number:2000.107.013.19.05
Date:1992
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Doug Barnett discussing new play, Seattle, April 5, 1970
Black Arts/West was Seattle’s first black theatre and functioned as a three component program: theatre, dance, and an art gallery displaying the work of local and national artists. Evolving out of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Black Arts/West was founded by Douglas Q. Barnett (1931-) in 1969. As a division of the Central Area Motivation Program, an anti-poverty…
ID Number:2000.107.014.21.01
Date:1970
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Panel at Allied Arts Congress meeting, December 4, 1966
In 1966, Allied Arts of Seattle President Norman Johnson issued a challenge to members of the organization and to the larger arts community to expand the scope of community involvement in the arts. A panel was convened for the December 1966 Allied Arts meeting, to discuss the need for outreach to Seattle’s Black and Indigenous communities, particularly in the city’s…
ID Number:2000.107.014.25.02
Date:1966
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Roberta Byrd Barr speaking at school levy rally, May 3, 1971
Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) was a civil rights leader, educator, and journalist. Born in Tacoma, Barr returned to Seattle in 1959, attending University of Washington and working as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, and then as librarian at John Muir Elementary. When Seattle teachers and parents boycotted the city’s public schools and demanded desegregation in 1966, Barr headed the…
ID Number:2000.107.014.25.06
Date:1971
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Roberta Byrd Barr rehearsing "Peace Child" with students, October 1984
Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) was a civil rights leader, educator, and journalist. Born in Tacoma, Barr returned to Seattle in 1959, attending University of Washington and working as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, and then as librarian at John Muir Elementary. When Seattle teachers and parents boycotted the city’s public schools and demanded desegregation in 1966, Barr headed the…
ID Number:2000.107.014.25.07
Date:1984
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Ruby Bishop posing at piano at Ivar's Restaurant, Seattle, February 2, 1958
Ruby Bishop (1919-2019) was born in Thurston County and was a well-known Seattle jazz singer and pianist for decades. Ms. Bishop was an active member of the American Federation of Music (AFM) Local 493 in Seattle, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," founded in 1918 as Local 458 when African Americans were excluded from Seattle's first musicians' union, AFM…
ID Number:2000.107.022.17.01
Date:1958