Welcome to the Ballets Russes Archives series - Getting to Know the Collections. We wanted to share some of our most interesting collections with you. Our first selection is the Nathalie Branitzka-Hoyer collection.
Nathalie Branitzka was born July 18, 1905, in St. Petersburg, Russia. She studied ballet at the Petrograd Ballet School under the famous teacher Agrippina Vaganova in St. Petersburg. She later studied with Lubov Egorova in Paris. She started her professional career in the Anna Pavlova Company, continuing with Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe and appeared with Vera Trefilova and Pierre Vladimioff in Berlin. Following Diaghilev’s death, she performed with Boris Kniaseff's ballet company in Paris in 1930. She joined with De Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancing from 1932-1937. Rising to soloist, she made a world tour and appeared in many works by Leonid Massine, including Choreartium, Jeux d'Enfants, Beach and Scuola di Ballo, and in Mikhail Fokine's Carnaval and Les Sylphides. She moved to US to teach with her husband, Jan Hoyer, who had also been a member of both companies. She was the director of her own eponymous ballet school in New York City. She died March 8, 1977, in New York City.
The Nathalie Branitzka-Hoyer collection is our one of our largest and most diverse collections. It was donated by her son, Andre von Hoyer. We have over 1,000 items, and it is the only collection large enough to warrant having series. We have eight series in the collection.
The first and largest is manuscripts. These materials include individual performance programs, season long souvenir programs, and notes.
Nathalie Branitzka was born July 18, 1905, in St. Petersburg, Russia. She studied ballet at the Petrograd Ballet School under the famous teacher Agrippina Vaganova in St. Petersburg. She later studied with Lubov Egorova in Paris. She started her professional career in the Anna Pavlova Company, continuing with Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe and appeared with Vera Trefilova and Pierre Vladimioff in Berlin. Following Diaghilev’s death, she performed with Boris Kniaseff's ballet company in Paris in 1930. She joined with De Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancing from 1932-1937. Rising to soloist, she made a world tour and appeared in many works by Leonid Massine, including Choreartium, Jeux d'Enfants, Beach and Scuola di Ballo, and in Mikhail Fokine's Carnaval and Les Sylphides. She moved to US to teach with her husband, Jan Hoyer, who had also been a member of both companies. She was the director of her own eponymous ballet school in New York City. She died March 8, 1977, in New York City.
Nathalie Branitzka-Hoyer
The first and largest is manuscripts. These materials include individual performance programs, season long souvenir programs, and notes.
De Basil’s Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Performance Program from Royal Opera House Covent Garden, July 24, 1935
Series 2 is scrapbooks. We have 7 scrapbooks from Nathalie Branitzka's time with the companies.
Series 3 is photographic materials. These include photos, negatives, and photographic postcards.
Snapshot of Nathalie Branitzka and three dancers petting a koala on Australia tour, 1936-7
Series 4 is moving images. We have five 8 mm reels of footage from the Ballet Russe and touring.
Series 5 is publications. This series includes a number of different magazines.
Issue of Dance and Dancers from October 1950; Volume 1, Number 10
Series 6 is books. This is our largest collection of books and includes a number of Russian titles.
Our Ballet - Published in 1896
Series 7 is scores. We have scores from many of the great ballets, including Firebird, Swan Lake, and the Nutcracker.
Sleeping Beauty
Series 8 is posters. Because these posters are from the 1930's, they are not in very good shape. Hopefully, we will be able to start conservation on them this year.
So, that's the Branitzka-Hoyer collection. We're looking forward to sharing more of our materials with you over the next few months.
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