embraced by her remark, “Dancing is a serious, an honorable, a noble profession.” Written works and lectures The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts searchable indices list well over a hundred of Maynard's writings, mainly articles, along with voice and video recordings: A collection of Olga Maynard's papers is in the University of California, Irvine Library Dance and Performing Arts Collection, where her dance photograph collection also has special place. These may include souvenir programs that she wrote for such companies as the National Ballet of Canada and Les Grandes Ballets Canadièns. Books and separately available writings (all illus.) The Ballet Companion: An Illustrated How to Look and How to Listen Guide to Four of the Most Popular Ballets. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1957. The American Ballet. With a foreword by Ted Shawn. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Co., 1959. Bird of Fire: The Story of Maria Tallchief. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961. American Modern Dancers: The Pioneers; An introduction to modern dance through the biographical studies of the first creative dancers of that art. New York: Little, Brown, 1965. Enjoying Opera: A Book for the New Opera Goer. New York: Scribner's, 1966. Children and Dance and Music. New York: Scribner's, 1968. 'Les Sylphides', Dance Magazine Portfolio. New York, 1971. 'Balanchine and Stravinsky: The Glorious Undertaking', Dance Magazine Portfolio, 1972. ‘The Sleeping Beauty (an historical survey from Perrault to Nureyev's version for National Ballet of Canada)’. Dance Magazine (December 1972): 43-66. 'Nureyev: the Man and the Myth', 100 pp (illus.), 28 cm. William Como, ed.; Herbert Migdoll, designer. Danad Pub. Co, 1973. Judith Jamison: Aspects of a Dancer. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982. Critics' choices: shorter pieces ‘ABT on Tour with a King, Two Queens and Four Aces’. Dance Magazine (May 1971): 44-6. ‘Lincoln Center New York City: The Night They Danced “Giselle”’. Dance Magazine (October 1974) Notes External links Archival collections Guide to the Olga Maynard Papers. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. 1913 births 1994 deaths Dance historians Dance writers 20th-century Brazilian women writers 20th-century Brazilian historians 20th-century American historians