Faculty Files, 1948-1977 and undated

Containers:
Box 34
Extent:
4.25 Linear Feet
Scope and content:

Contains correspondence, contracts, housing forms, notes, memos to individual faculty members, and recommendations regarding teaching faculty, teaching assistants, accompanists, and workshop directors (Dance Educators, Dance Therapy, and Dance Accompanists). Also includes some biographical materials and some materials regarding ADF classes. Several faculty members played multiple roles at the festival (e.g. performer, workshop director, faculty member). Materials relating to the individual roles a participant played will be filed by the subject of the materials. For example, Helen Priest Rogers' correspondence about the Film and Notation project is filed in the Special Projects subgroup, and her correspondence relating to plans for teaching a Labanotation course will be filed in the Faculty Files. Her course materials, such as syllabi and handouts, is filed in Courses in the Curriculum subseries. Materials regarding faculty who were invited but could not attend and letters of interest from potential faculty members are filed in the School Administration series under Administration.

Arranged chronologically and within each year alphabetically by surname of faculty member.

Biographical / historical:
From 1948 through the mid to late 1960s, ADF's faculty consisted of a core group of teachers, many of whom were also involved as regular festival performers and advisors to the festival and the school including Martha Graham, Jose and Pauline Limon, Doris Humphrey, Louis Horst, William Bales, Helen Priest Rogers, George and Barbara Beiswanger, Norman and Ruth Lloyd, Hazel Johnson, and George McGeary. ADF Directors Ruth Bloomer and Theodora Wiesner also taught during this period. Other faculty of note from this period are Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, Alvin Ailey, Donald McKayle, Glenn Mack, Jane Dudley, Sophie Maslow, Betty Jones, Ruth Currier, Doris Rudko, David and Marnie Wood, Martha and Josef Wittman, Lucas Hoving, Daniel Nagrin, Pauline Koner, Bessie Schonberg, and Yuriko. Later faculty included Walter Nicks, Meredith Monk, Arthur Hall, Anna Halprin, Peter Saul, and Mel Wong.

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Collection is open for research.

Please contact the American Dance Festival Archives (adf@americandancefestival.org) to arrange for use of these materials.

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In accordance with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 as amended, the American Dance Festival Archives permits students to inspect their education records and limits the disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records.

Records, such as search committee files or others pertaining to employment where individuals are identified, are closed for 70 years.

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Materials from the ADF Archives may be viewed by appointment in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library at Duke University. Visits may be arranged in advance by contacting the ADF archivist at adf@americandancefestival.org. Visitors will need to comply with Duke's registration and security policies.