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Contains school catalogs or bulletins listing faculty, classes, and other school information. Drafts of the catalogs and bulletins, proof copies, or administrative materials concerning the creation or printing of catalogs and bulletins are filed in Administration under the Publications Office series.

Contains correspondence, forms and form letters, class lists, applications, and course materials relating to classes for children (under 12) at Connecticut College for young non-residential students. Children's classes were distinct from the ADF's community classes offered by the Community Outreach Program and the program was known alternately as the Young Dancers Workshop and the Childrens Dance Workshop. Teachers included Ruth Ferguson, Harriet Berg, Bonnie Bird, and Virginia Tanner.

Contains audition lists and audition schedules relating to required group auditions held for technique class placement at the beginning of the summer term. Also includes correspondence, notes, schedules, and procedure lists for arranging and holding auditions.

Contains tentative and final printed schedules of classes offered during the summer session.

Contains information about various courses and special workshops, including course descriptions, teachers' and students' notes, syllabi, blank exams, handouts, and handbooks.

Contains memoranda, correspondence, minutes, and notes recording discussions, meetings, and suggestions about the development of the school as a whole and its curricula, faculty, and quality of applicants. Also included are correspondence and curriculum proposals by Bessie Schonberg. Of interest are the 1967-1968 proposals of a Master of Arts in Dance with a teaching emphasis or a Master of Arts in Fine Arts through the ADF School. Also of interest are the notes on the development of the Theater Component (1976) and Weekend Workshops (1977).

Contains programs, program materials, memoranda, correspondence, and sign-up sheets regarding informal performances of student choreography, improvisation, and movement studies. Class Showings were informal programs of specific classes, performed by students and reflecting their "in progress" work developed during their daily classes. Student Workshops were informal weekly performances, and approximately six were presented during a summer session. Student Concerts were informal performances of student-choreographed compositions performed by students.

Contains posters advertising the school curriculum and faculty.

Contains posters advertising the school curriculum and faculty.

Contains sign-up sheets, schedules, and flyers advertising special and master classes that were offered in addition to the regular course offerings as a one-time opportunity for students to receive instruction from visiting dance artists, including Rudy Perez, Louis Falco, and Murray Louis.

Contains correspondence, course materials, printed materials, letters of interest, and student papers and evaluations pertaining to workshops held for dance and movement educators and dance accompanists. These were special "refresher" or "intensive" workshops tailored specifically for professionals in the dance field who were dance or movement teachers, dance accompanists, or dance therapists. Workshop instructors included Delia Hussey, Ruth Murray, Barbara Beiswanger, Theodora Wiesner, Bonnie Bird, Marion North, and Virginia Tanner.

Contains correspondence, recommendation letters, and notes relating to Myers' activities associated with the school and with her professional activities at Connecticut College and in the dance world.

Contains lists of teaching faculty, faculty assistants, and accompanists. Lists may contain information such as biographical blurbs or informal salary and expense information.