Young Choreographers, 1959-1967

Containers:
Box 69
Extent:
9 folders
Scope and content:

Contains audition sign-up sheets, audition rating sheets, memos, notes, correspondence, and programs pertaining to Young Choreographers' Concerts held during the summer session as a main stage performance. Participants in the Young Choreographers' auditions appear to be mostly students, but other participants were up-and-coming dancers who were not current students at the school. Auditioners and finalists include Trisha Brown (1962), Meredith Monk (1963), Martha Clarke (1962), Betty Jones (1960), Lar Lubovitch (1962), Carla Maxwell (1965), and Senta Driver (1965). The Young Choreographers' Concerts were active during the 1960s and are not related to the Young Choreographers and Composers program, 1983-1995.

Arranged chronologically.

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