Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Duncan, Elizabeth, 1871-1948.
2. Duncan, Irma.
3. Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942.
4. Marsh, Lucile, 1899-
5. St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968.
6. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972.
7. Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance.

Description

1. 2 linear feet (4 boxes)

Summary

1. The Lucy Phelps Lampkin papers contain clippings, correspondence, photographs, programs, and a scrapbook relating to her career as a teacher in Athens, Georgia (where she directed the Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance and Related Arts) and to her one year as director of the Dance Department, Sullins College, Bristol, Virginia (1938-1939).

Subject

1. Dance teachers
2. St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
3. Programs
4. Dance in art
5. Dance teachers > United States
6. Dance > Study and teaching
7. Dance recitals > Photographs
8. Manuscripts
9. Dance schools > Georgia > Athens
10. Photographs
11. Correspondence
12. Athens (Ga.) > Social life and customs
13. Lampkin, Lucy
14. Dance teachers > Georgia > Athens
15. Scrapbooks
16. Clippings
17. Marsh, Lucile, 1899-

Genre/Form

1. Clippings.
2. Correspondence.
3. Manuscripts.
4. Photographs.
5. Programs.
6. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. (S) *MGZMD 208

Source (note)

1. Christ-Janer, Virginia

Location of other archival materials (note)

1. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Biography (note)

1. Dance teacher, Lucy Phelps Lampkin (born 1903), who trained with many notable figures in the fields of modern dance and dance education (including Lucile Marsh and Ruth St. Denis), operated her own dance studio in her native Athens, Georgia for many years.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Author

1. Lampkin, Lucy.

Title

1. Lucy Phelps Lampkin papers, 1920-1967.

Biography

1. Dance teacher, Lucy Phelps Lampkin (born 1903), who trained with many notable figures in the fields of modern dance and dance education (including Lucile Marsh and Ruth St. Denis), operated her own dance studio in her native Athens, Georgia for many years. Lampkin opened the Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance and Related Arts in 1928 and continued to direct it through 1968. She had studied many dance forms intensively in New York and Europe, working with Michel Fokine (ballet), Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and Mary Wigman, among others. Examples of choreographic notes, syllabi, and other teaching materials in the collection appear to indicate that Lampkin had been profoundly influenced as a teacher by Lucile Marsh, as well as the Isadora Duncan System (Lampkin studied with both Elizabeth and Irma Duncan). She also did extensive research on sculpture and painting in relation to dance at a number of museums in America and in Europe, eventually publishing a book on the subject, The Dance in Art (1935). Lampkin had some performing experience, briefly appearing as a soloist with a concert group, the Marsh Dancers (run by Agnes and Lucile Marsh), in New York City. After closing her studio, Lampkin retired from active teaching.

Location of other archival materials

1. See also Scrapbooks (*MGZRS 84-4311; *ZBD-353 Microfilm) in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Indexes

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material
2. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Dance teachers.

Added author

1. Duncan, Elizabeth, 1871-1948.
2. Duncan, Irma.
3. Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942.
4. Marsh, Lucile, 1899-
5. St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968.
6. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972.
7. Lucy Lampkin School of the Dance.

Research call number

1. (S) *MGZMD 208