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Title: Oral history interview with Grace Mann
Creator: Mullen, Dennis
Freidman, Jeff
Mann, Grace
Date Created and/or Issued: 1993
Contributing Institution: Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library
Collection: California Revealed from Museum of Performance and Design
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Description: Mann studied ballet with Theodore Kosloff, Alexandra Baldina, Lew Christensen, Willam Christensen, and others. She toured with Ballet Russe in Europe. She returned to California and founded Ballet Valmann. Mann taught ballet until her retirement in 1992.
Interview conducted for the Legacy Oral History Project.
California Preservation Service (CAPS)
Type: sound
Format: Master
Form/Genre: Oral histories
Identifier: csfpal_000028
Language: English
Subject: Ballet Valman
Ballerinas--San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Dance--Study and teaching
Dance teachers--California--San Francisco Bay Area
Ballet--San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Choreographers--San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Mann, Grace
Kosloff, Theodore
Baldina, Alexandra Vasilevna, 1885-1977
Christensen, Lew, 1909-1984
Christensen, Willam F. (Willam Farr)
Ballets Russes du Col. W. de Basil
Place: San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Provenance: Museum of Performance + Design
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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