Trudl Dubsky Zipper

The Trudl Dubsky Zipper collection contains papers, photographs, and works of art collected by Trudl Dubsky Zipper. Of note are clippings, programs, and photographs from her early dance career with the Bodenwieser Group in the late 1920s-1930s and photographs of the Manila Ballet Moderne, that she founded, from the 1930s-1960s. These materials are dated from 1928 to 1972.

See below for a curated albums of papers, photographs, and art collected by Trudl Dubsky Zipper.

Music Manuscripts

Audio and Visual Recordings

Art, Posters, and Objects

Trudl Dubsky Zipper

Papers

Bodenwieser group program (February 23, 1930)

Dance recital program (September 24, 1930)

Dance recital review (September 25, 1930)

Dance recital program (January 9, 1932)

Dance recital program (January 10, 1932)

Dance recital review (January 11, 1932)

Trudl Dubsky’s Manila Symphony Society membership card (1939-40)

Manila Ballet Moderne program (September 23, 1941)

Letter from Erwin Piscator (April 11, 1947)

Dramatic Workshop “Princess Turandot” program (April 1948)

Signed Manila Ballet Moderne program (September 4, 1952)

Program for “Snoopy’s Dreams of Glory” (June 6, 1971)

Photographs

Trudl Dubsky (early 1930s)

Bodenwieser dancers, Dubsky second from right (1931, photograph by Arthur Benda)

Trudl Dubsky (early 1930s, photograph by Franz Löwy)

Trudl Dubsky and Jeannette Rutherston (early 1930s)

Trudl Dubsky (early 1930s)

A great leap by Trudl Dubsky (1930, photograph by Lenare)

Trudl Dubsky (1934, photograph by Franz Löwy)

Trudl Dubsky and Manila Ballet Moderne (1939)

Trudl Dubksy as “The Witch” (1940)

Trudl Dubsky and Manila Ballet Moderne for “Pictures at an Exhibition” (1941)

Trudl Dubsky Zipper for “Pictures at an Exhibition” (1946)

Trudl Dubsky Zipper enters during the Manila Ballet Moderne’s production of “Die Fledermaus” (1954)

Curtain call for Manila Ballet Moderne’s production of “Die Fledermaus” (1954)

Trudl Dubsky Zipper and Ernest Korneld arrange miniature set for Manila Ballet Moderne’s production of “The Bartered Bride” (1955)

Trudl Dubsky Zipper and performers of the Manila Ballet Moderne’s production of “Carmen” (1956)

Trudl Dubsky Zipper teaching at the Music Center in Chicago (1960s)

Trudl Dubsky Zipper teaching at the Music Center in Chicago (1960s)

Curtain call for Trudl Dubsky Zipper’s play “Snoopy’s Dreams of Glory” in Chicago (circa 1970))

Art

“Paco” (1943)

Portrait of a Filipino man (Circa 1940)

Watercolor of flowers (Early 1940s)

“Chinese Cemetery Manila” (1945)

“Marikina Valley” (October 1945)

Cathedral in Manila, Philippines (Early 1940s)

Santa Cruz Cathedral concert watercolor (1945)

Herbert Zipper and Sailor playing chess (March 3, 1946)

Sketch of Manhattan, New York City (Late 1940s)

“Acis and Galatea” (1959)

“Lady Macbeth” (unknown date)