Guide to the Photograph Album of People and Locations Associated with Margaret Morris Movement Schools and Training Programs, 1925-1930 SPEC.TRI.0107 Finding aid prepared by Sabrina Gorse Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections

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2024 September This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2024-09-24T15:01-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Photograph Album of People and Locations Associated with Margaret Morris Movement Schools and Training Programs SPEC.TRI.0107 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 1 0.15 Cubic feet 1925-1930 The Margaret Morris Movement was a dance technique combining dance, exercise, and free movement training developed by Margaret Morris (1891-1980). The Photograph Album of People and Locations Associated with Margaret Morris Movement Schools and Training Programs contains a photograph album holding seventy-one black-and-white gelatin silver photographs depicting people, activities, and locations associated with the Margaret Morris Movement schools and training programs; it dates from 1925-1930. (1) flat box English Unknown Acquisitions Information

Accession No. TRI.2024.0027: Purchased, 2019 March

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[identification of item], Photograph Album of People and Locations Associated with Margaret Morris Movement Schools and Training Programs, SPEC.TRI.0107, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University

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Historical Note

Margaret Morris (1891-1980) was a dancer, choreographer, educator, artist, and writer born in London, United Kingdom. The Margaret Morris Movement was a dance technique combining dance, exercise, and free movement training developed by Morris. She founded her first school teaching the dance method in St. Martin’s Lane in London in 1910. The first Margaret Morris Movement summer school opened in Devon in 1917. Between 1917 through 1939, more schools and training programs were launched including dance schools in Aberdeen, Cannes, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester, and Paris; annual summer schools in the United Kingdom and France; and Margaret Morris Movement Centres internationally. When World War II began, most of the Margaret Morris Movement schools in the United Kingdom closed with some reopening after the war. Although the Glasgow and London schools closed in 1961, the summer schools have stayed open and classes are still taught through the Margaret Morris Movement International Limited as of 2024.

Scope and Contents

The Photograph Album of People and Locations Associated with Margaret Morris Movement Schools and Training Programs contains a photograph album holding seventy-one black-and-white gelatin silver photographs that depict people, activities, and locations associated with the Margaret Morris Movement schools and training programs. These include the compiler of the photograph album referred to as “me,” students, and locations in such localities as: Plage de Wissant, France; Oberammergau, Germany; Walmer, United Kingdom; Villars, France; Kandersteg, Switzerland; and Beatenberg, Switzerland. Some of the photographs have handwritten captions identifying the names of the subjects, the locations pictured, and/or the year of the photograph’s creation, dating between 1925 through 1930.

Margaret Morris Movement Morris, Margaret, 1891-1980 Dance schools--Europe--20th century Dance--Europe--20th century Dance--Study and teaching--Europe--20th century Dancers--Europe--20th century Gelatin silver prints Photograph albums Students--Europe--20th century Summer schools--Europe--20th century