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Bella Malinka papers

Title
  1. Bella Malinka papers, 1950-1993.
Supplementary content
  1. Finding Aid
Author
  1. Malinka, Bella

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Additional authors
  1. Joel, Lydia
  2. D'Amboise, Charlotte
  3. High School of Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.)
Description
  1. 3 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Summary
  1. The Bella Malinka papers consist mostly of materials relating to her career as a teacher, notably at the School of Performing Arts in New York City.
Subject
  1. Dance teachers
  2. Choreographers
  3. Costume design drawings
  4. Dance teachers > New York (State) > New York
  5. High School of Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.)
  6. Choreographers > United States > 20th century
  7. Lecture notes
  8. Clippings
  9. Dancers
  10. School yearbooks
  11. Programs
  12. Manuscripts
  13. Joel, Lydia
  14. Malinka, Bella
  15. Photographs
  16. Women dancers > United States > 20th century
Genre/Form
  1. Clippings.
  2. Lecture notes.
  3. Manuscripts.
  4. Photographs.
  5. Programs.
  6. School yearbooks.
  7. Costume design drawings.
Call number
  1. (S) *MGZMD 143
Biography (note)
  1. Educator, choreographer, and dancer Bella Malinka taught at New York's School of the Performing Arts from 1949 to 1981.
Indexes/finding aids (note)
  1. Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
Author
  1. Malinka, Bella.
Title
  1. Bella Malinka papers, 1950-1993.
Biography
  1. Educator, choreographer, and dancer Bella Malinka taught at New York's School of the Performing Arts from 1949 to 1981. Little is known of her early life, but Malinka studied ballet with Anton Dolin, Leon Danelian, Bronislava Nijinska, and Edward Caton, among others. She also studied modern dance, theater dance, and ethnic dance with Hanya Holm, Agnes de Mille, Bhupesh Guha, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and Frederico Rey. As a dancer, Malinka had a varied career. She performed with a number of modern dance companies, danced on the stage in operettas, as well as in vaudeville and nightclubs.
  2. A faculty member at New York City's School of Performing Arts (later Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music and Arts) from its inception, Malinka taught there from 1949 to 1981, eventually becoming Senior Ballet Teacher. She developed and taught a ballet survey course to all freshman dance students and choreographed annual student performances, staging the works of George Balanchine, as well as creating her own original ballets. Malinka also created works for numerous other special events under the School of Performing Arts' auspices, including the ballet, Union Maid (1979), which was performed to the music of Woody Guthrie for the United Federation of Teachers. Some of her outstanding students included George De la Peña, Eliot Feld, and Christian Holder. In the 1970s, she also was asked by the New York City Board of Education to review standards for licensing dance teacher. Malinka left the School of Performing Arts in 1981, after having filed and won (on appeal) a grievance against Lydia Joel, Chairman of the Dance Department.
Indexes
  1. Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
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  1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material
  2. Finding Aid
Occupation
  1. Choreographers.
  2. Dance teachers.
  3. Dancers.
Added author
  1. Joel, Lydia.
  2. D'Amboise, Charlotte.
  3. High School of Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.)
Research call number
  1. (S) *MGZMD 143
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