TBT: Genevieve “Gegi” Oswald, Founding Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library
When Genevieve Oswald began working at the New York Public Library in 1944, there was no division dedicated specifically to dance.
When Genevieve Oswald began working at the New York Public Library in 1944, there was no division dedicated specifically to dance.
The world’s largest dance archive just keeps growing. Over the summer, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Jerome Robbins Dance Division began welcoming two new collections to its illustrious archive. The legacies of Martha Graham and Trisha Brown will be safely housed at NYPL’s Lincoln Center campus, featuring rarely seen treasure troves […]
Libraries, rightly or not, are frequently designated in the public consciousness as places that are silent, stuffy and still. This has never really been the case when it comes to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Last Wednesday, as dance world luminaries and patrons alike gathered […]