February 29, 2012
Strategically timed to coincide with the previews of the latest revival of Death of a Salesman on Broadway, the Winter 2012 edition of Performance! is now available here.
This gala “theater issue” includes articles about the archives of Arthur Miller and the Roundabout Theatre Company, as well as an interview with Jennifer Homans, author of Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, and a personal perspective on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s efforts to establish its own archives.
December 31, 2011
As recently reported, the Woody Guthrie Archives will be moving to a new purpose built facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to be financed by the George Kaiser Family Foundation. The new center, a former warehouse, which is currently being renovated, is expected to open in 2013. New York’s loss is Oklahoma’s gain.
December 9, 2011
Today’s New York Times reported on the acquisition of “memorabilia” relating to Off Off Broadway venue, Caffe Cino, including the 1966 program for “Dames at Sea” pictured below:
July 12, 2011
Carl Van Vechten photograph of Paul Taylor in George Balanchine's 'Episodes'
The Paul Taylor Dance Company announced officially today that its archives are now available to the public. The collection includes Foundation records consisting of 95 cubic feet of archives backlog and over 60 cubic feet of personal papers and artifacts from Mr. Taylor’s former West Village home.
Finding aids to the collection and other information is available online at the PTDC site and also discoverable on ArchiveGrid. The preservation project was funded through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.
Congratulations to all! I look forward to digging around more on the site once my login is authenticated.
Image credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, LOT 12735, no. 1085 [P&P]
June 3, 2011
Just a quick announcement about an interesting meeting happening soon for those of you hanging about the EU: Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millennium.
March 30, 2011
Suffragette Series No. 9 postcard
We don’t often make “official” announcements, but since we were asked nicely, we would like to take this moment to remind our readers who are SAA members to please vote in the online election.
Online voting in SAA’s 2011 Election closes April 11! If you are an eligible SAA member, please vote today: https://eballot4.votenet.com/saa.
January 26, 2011
So much for my November promise of more frequent postings, but just a quick announcement to let you all know that the Winter issue of the newsletter of the SAA Performing Arts Roundtable is now available online:
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/performart/newsletter/PArtsNews2010win.pdf
The issue features an article about the Diaghilev exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, as well as interviews with New York City Ballet dancer Ellen Bar (about her film adaptation of Jerome Robbins’ 1958 ballet, N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz) and Brooklyn Academy of Music archivist Sharon Lerner.
