Skip to main content

Nicholson, Juanita

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Audrey Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-WilliamsA
Abstract

Scrapbooks, photographs, postcards, and some clippings and publicity material from dancer Audrey Williams, who joined the Dorothy Hild dancers and performed stage shows at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel, as well as touring with the USO during World War II.

Dates: 1910s-1990s; Majority of material found within 1940-1949

Juanita Nicholson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Nicholson
Abstract

Juanita Nicholson is a dance teacher and former volunteer at the Newberry in Chicago. Papers, which are mainly concerned with the Cecchetti Council of America and the Cecchetti method of teaching ballet, include instruction booklets, syllabi for dance classes and teacher examinations, some miscellaneous class notes, two volumes of piano music, a cassette tape, and phonograph records of Cecchetti Grades One through Five.

Dates: 1952-1983

Additional filters:

Subject
Ballet -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance teachers -- Illinois 1
Dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1