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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.

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.

Contains correspondence, notes, and evaluation forms from faculty members on the previous season and their recommendations for the next year's school and festival.

Contains memos sent to faculty members and advisors as a group, not to individuals. Individual correspondence and memos sent to faculty members are filed in Faculty Files. Memos include announcements regarding class grades and credits, scheduling classes, tentative class schedules for faculty review, advising students, student registration, the season's teaching faculty and school, visitors and guests at the festival, complimentary tickets, housing and meals, and invitations to faculty meetings and social gatherings. In the 1970s, memos were often sent out as packets to faculty members before they arrived for the season.

Contains agenda and meeting minutes of faculty meetings. Minutes exist as unedited drafts, handwritten and typed notes, and final copies that were distributed to the faculty or to the Director and Dean.