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Contains schedules, newspaper articles, correspondence, contracts, administration materials, press releases, and a NEA grant application regarding Project: Music and Dance.

Contains programs, administrative materials, diagrams, newspaper clippings, artwork, correspondence, schedules, form letters, contracts, and a NEA grant application referring to a variety of projects with some association with the American Dance Festival, Dance Symposiums held by the Connecticut College Dance Group featuring classes and critiques by Louis Horst, Walter Terry, Hazel Johnson, June Dunbar, Ella Lukk, Pauline Koner, and David Wood (1954 and 1958), children's programs by the Merry-Go-Rounders and the Merrymobile (1959), international projects (1959 and 1961), a documentary on the American Dance Festival (1972), and the Total Theatre Project film Taylor's Follies (1975-1977).

Contains press clippings referring to the American Dance Festival and its performers and participants.

Contains press kits made and distributed by ADF containing press releases describing the various activities at the school and festival including schedules of events, companies performing at the festival, festival programs, projects offered by the Community Outreach Program, and workshops and mini-conferences including the Critics Conference and the Dance Educators' Workshop. Also includes individual companies' publicity materials that were distributed as part of the general press kits.

Contains press releases, schedules, correspondence, and lists of students organized according to home state for publicity purposes. Releases include information on faculty members, classes, artists, programs to be held, and descriptions of programs after the performances. Also includes correspondence regarding press releases, ticket order forms, and administrative materials.

Contains letters of interest, correspondence, notes, student lists, credit explanations, form letters, and administrative materials that address ADF's policies and practices toward academic credit in relation to ADF courses. Records address Connecticut College students receiving academic credit for ADF courses, inquiries from other academic institutions about ADF's course work, and inquiries from students regarding academic credit. Also includes correspondence initiated by ADF with similar summer dance schools and programs regarding academic credit.

Contains ADF School administrative materials such as information about school policies, procedures, programs, and student application and registration, forms and form letters, letters of interest from prospective students and faculty, correspondence with faculty and students unable to attend, information about mass mailings, schedules for classes (working copies), master calendars, weekly status reports about school applicants, correspondence, and notes. Subseries is organized chronologically with categories within each year. Items of interest include correspondence with faculty unable to attend, such as Mary Wigman (1951), Anna Halprin (1958), Merce Cunningham (1962), Norman and Ruth Lloyd (1962), Eleo Pomare (1965), and Martha Graham (1968).

Contains correspondence, agenda, meeting minutes, and notes pertaining to the planning of the ADF School and the upcoming season. The Advisory Board, in conjunction with the Festival Committee, was the decision-making body for nearly all activities of the School of Dance and the Festival season including faculty, accompanists, workshops, scholarships and scholarship winners, the dates of the school, and special projects. The Board also made decisions about funding and administrative personnel.

Contains correspondence between the ADF School and Wright and Ditson, a dance clothing supply house, discussing the styles and colors of the regulation costume, consisting of a choice of leotard and tights, required by the ADF School. Also includes Wright and Ditson order forms and notices to students about their dance attire.

Contains statistical reports of ailments and injuries treated by the Connecticut College infirmary, correspondence between ADF and Connecticut College regarding usage of the infirmary during the summer, and general information about the infirmary hours and emergency contacts for students.

Contains housing and dining room lists, dormitory floor plans, correspondence, forms, housing meeting minutes, meal tickets, notes regarding housing preferences and decisions, and car registration forms. Also includes completed questionnaires or information from local residents who rented their homes to members of the ADF community.

Contains materials, such as mailing lists of college dance departments and forms for a traveling ADF School photo exhibit, concerning the recruitment of students for the school.