Your Career: How to Win Health, Beauty, Fame, Popularity, Independence…; Ned Wayburn Dancing Courses for Children…;
New York: Ned Wayburn Studios of Stage Dancing, Inc., 1841 Broadway, 1929. Two pieces of ephemera. Your Career is an octavo. 60 pp. Ned Wayburn is also an octavo. [4 pp.] Unpaginated. 5.5 x 8 in. Rare first editions. OCLC records 4 copies in libraries worldwide of Your Career and no copies of Ned Wayburn.T. Your Career has publisher’s beige wrapping with illustration of ballet dancer and title in blue and orange. Minor edgewear. Reproduced photographs throughout. Ned Wayburn printed on green laid paper, folded once, with copy of letter from Ned Wayburn to Miss Collebrusco inside. Both items are in near fine condition. Item #17783
These itens encourage young dancers to train and pursue a dance career, through the teaching and advice of Ned Wayburn. Your Career advises young women on how to prepare for a stage career as well as sharing information about Ned Wayburn’s dance school. Ned Wayburn Dancing Courses includes dates and prices for summer courses. In the letter inside, Weyburn encourages Miss Collebrusco enroll early in these classes before they fill up.
Ned Wayburn (1874-1942) was an American choreographer, theater director, and dance teacher during the 1920s. He taught six techniques: musical comedy, tapping and stepping, acrobatic work, American ballet, pointe, and ballroom. In 1905, he opened Ned Wayburn’s Training School for the Stage in New York City which became a notable school for theatrical dance. Wayburn’s dance school produced many celebrity Broadway dancers during the 1920s and 1930s. He trained dancers such as Ann Pennington, Gilda Gray, Fannie Brice, Ada May Weeks, Dorothy Dickson, and the Dolly Sisters. He also worked with Fred and Adele Astaire. Wayburn used the methods of Ida Simpson-Serven and Delsarte to emphasize the importance of strength training and athleticism for a dancer. His obituary in the New York Times called him “the most prominent director in the development of the modern American musical comedy with its emphasis on color, dancing and tuneful melody.” American National Biography.
Price: $300.00