UUM_P1531.xml Guide to the Joan Woodbury photograph collection Woodbury (Joan) photograph collection Finding aid created by Claire A. Kempa. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections

2022
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-09-13. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Joan Woodbury photograph collection Woodbury, Joan J., 1927- Winn, Norman Holstein, Milt P1531 415 items 1 box 1950-1990 Joan Woodbury (1927-) was a dancer, choreographer, and professor of dance at the University of Utah who co-founded the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 1964. This collection contains portraits of Woodbury and photographs of students, practices, and dance performances dating from 1950 to 1990. English .

Joan Woodbury was born on September 21, 1927 in Cedar City, Utah. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin and became the first Fulbright Scholar in dance when she studied with Mary Wigman in Berlin, Germany in 1945. A retired professor of modern dance at the University of Utah where she taught for 47 years, Woodbury choreographed more than 100 works throughout her career, collaborated in the creation of 16 dance videos, and has been commissioned to choreograph by the Conservatoire National in Portugal, Outlet Dance Company in Australia, Desert Dance in Arizona, the University of Hawaii and Juillard School of Music plus many others. She has taught dance workshops and master classes throughout the United States as well as Portugal, France, Yugoslavia, China, Canada, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, England, Ireland, Singapore and Italy. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been honored by organizations across the world, including the prestigious French dictionary of dance, Dictionnaire de la Danse.

In 1964, Joan Woodbury founded Salt Lake City's Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company with fellow dancer and University of Utah professor Shirlie Ririe. The company has toured the world. Dedicated to educating children about the dance world, the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company offers not only formal and informal performances but also lectures, demonstrations, workshops and classes for all age groups in dance for actors, stage production and theater lighting. Joan Woodbury and Shirlie Ririe handed the artistic direction of the company over to Charlotte Boye-Christensen in 2008.

The Joan Woodbury photograph collection consists of 1 box containing 415 black-and-white photographs, contact sheets, negatives, and color photographs and slides. The images depict portraits of Woodbury and images of dancers and students practicing and performing. The collection dates from the 1950s to 1990s.

Arranged by subject.

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Permission to publish material from the Joan Woodbury photograph collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator.

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Donated by Joan Woodbury in 2008.

Processed by Special Collections staff.

See also the Joan Woodbury papers (ACCN 2384) in the Manuscripts Division and the Joan Woodbury dance audiovisual collection in the Audiovisual Division of Special Collections.

See also the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company records (ACCN 0709) and the Shirley Ririe papers (ACCN 2320) and photographs (P1479).

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

 Woodbury, Joan J., 1927---Photographs Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company--Photographs University of Utah. School of Dance--Photographs Dance companies--Utah--Photographs Modern dance--Utah--Photographs Photographs Black-and-white prints (photographs) Color prints (photographs) Portraits 1 1 Dancers 1 2 Group Photos 1 3 Dance Practice 1 4 "Tamiris 1962" 1 5 "A Work In Progress," 1976 1 6 Contact Sheets 1 7 Linda Smith, Joan Woodbury, and Shirley Ririe 1 8 Modern Dance Department General, circa 1955 or 1956 1 9 Hoving Workshop Summer Workshop, 1960 1 10 University of Utah, Modern Dance Workshop 1961, Photographer Norman Winn 1 11 University of Utah, Modern Dance Workshop July 1961, Photographer Milt Holstein 1 12 Park City Workshop University of Utah Dance Department circa 1960s (65-10) 1 13 Dancer Movement 1 14 Dance 1 15 Dance Contact Sheets 1 16 Package 3 of 3 from Hirsch Photographer In San Mateo, California, August 1976 1 17 Concert Photos, 1977; Fall Students November 19-20, 1976 1 18 Jensen and Woodbury Duo, Photographer Susan Boskoff 1 19 Redford Party, 1983 1 20 Rainbow Nets and Research Grand, 1979 1 21 Artwork and City 1 22 University of Utah, 1950s 1 23 Contact Sheets, Elizabeth T. Lewis Photographer 1 24 London, 1983 1 25 Joan Woodbury 1 26