- unitid
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{"value"=>"24580", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 496", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b21769338", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1961-2018", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1961/2018"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Anita Feldman Tap collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"13 boxes, 1 oversize folder", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"5.43 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"12 computer files", "unit"=>"computer_files"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"837.1 megabytes", "unit"=>"megabytes"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"27 audio recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"60 video recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Anita Feldman is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer best known for her innovative work in Tap and close collaborations with composers. The Anita Feldman Tap collection documents her professional life, including the dance company she founded, through files relating to performances and artist residencies; Feldman's original choreography; her student years and early work; the Tap Dance Instrument, a percussion instrument she co-invented; her teaching career; articles and a book written by Feldman; performance and publicity photographs; clippings of performance reviews; administrative records; and recordings of performances, music, and interviews."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Feldman, Anita, 1951-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Anita Feldman is a Modern dancer and choreographer best known for her experimental work in Tap and close collaborations with composers. A practicing dancer since childhood, who was trained in music and percussion, Feldman uses the sound of tap dancing as a musical element within her works. In the mid-1980s Feldman co-invented and patented the Tap Dance Instrument (TDI), a wood and brass multi-timbre floor platform, which is featured in many of her pieces. With her dance company, Anita Feldman Tap, she has performed in over 100 venues, ranging from academic settings to theaters in New York City, around the United States, and in Japan and Germany. Festivals in which Feldman has performed include the Colorado Dance Festival, the Boston Dance Umbrella, and the American Dance Festival. Her collaborators include Lois V. Vierk, Guy Klucevsek, David Bierman, Toby Twining, Larry Polansky, Rhonda Price, Gary Schall, and James Tenney. In the 1980s, Feldman adapted composer Steve Reich's <span class=\"title\">Clapping Music</span> for Tap, performing it as <span class=\"title\">Tapping Music</span>. Feldman retired from Hofstra in 2018 as an Associate Professor of Dance. She is now Professor Emerita.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Anita Feldman Tap collection, which dates from 1961 to 2018, traces the creative and professional life of Anita Feldman as a performer, choreographer, and teacher as well as the activity of her dance company, Anita Feldman Tap. The Performances and Residencies, and the Choreography files occupy the greatest share of the collection.</p> <p>Dating from 1977 to 2017, the Performances and Residencies files are arranged chronologically. These files are titled by choreographic works, venue, festival name, or name of composer or collaborator and include: programs; fliers; press releases; budgets; guest lists; a few photographs; and correspondence with residency hosts, event organizers, and collaborators. In addition to supporting documentation, there are also video recordings of performances staged around New York City or as part of artist residencies around the country, as well as the Anita Feldman Tap dance company's domestic and international touring performances.</p> <p>The Choreography files, which date from 1974 to 1999, illuminate the underlying creative processes that preceded public performance events. Files include: scores; choreographic charts, diagrams, and sketches; some photographs; and correspondence with collaborators. Recordings of music that accompany performances, sometimes including the sound of dancers' tapping feet, are also well-represented in this section. These files are arranged chronologically and by name of collaborator.</p> <p>The Interviews include video and audio recordings of Feldman and others on various broadcasts including National Public Radio, international radio stations, and various local broadcast networks.</p> <p>Student Years and Early Work files, which date from 1961 to 1993, cover Feldman's childhood and hold materials chronicling her early work.</p> <p>The files on Tap Dance Instrument, which date from 1986 to 1994, address the percussion instrument designed by Feldman and Daniel Schmidt. These files include information about the instrument's construction and design. The instrument's patent documentation is also present.</p> <p>The Teaching files cover Feldman's teaching career mostly at Hofstra University and various workshops throughout the United States. Included here are files on educational conferences; lecture notes; curricula and syllabi; student dance concert programs; and job applications and letters recommending Feldman for various teaching positions.</p> <p>The Writing files include the manuscript, its corrections, and publisher correspondence relating to <span class=\"title\">Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today's Tap Dancer</span> written by Feldman and published by Princeton Books in 1996. This subsection also contains articles written by Feldman over the years, including a remembrance of her mentor, Robert Ellis Dunn.</p> <p>The Photographs are organized chronologically and contain portraits and performance images from the 1970s through the 1990s. Several photographs were shot by L.V. Feldman, Anita Feldman's father, who was an accomplished amateur photographer.</p> <p>The collection also holds two files of Feldman's reviews dating from 1980 to the 2000s.</p> <p>The Administrative files include promotional material, resumes, grants, and contracts related to both Anita Feldman Tap dance company and to Anita Feldman as an individual performer.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Files are arranged chronologically under each topical section.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection was donated by Anita Feldman in April, 2018.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection processed by <span class=\"name\">Heather Halliday</span> in <span class=\"date\">2018</span>.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Audio, video, and electronic records description added by Tara D. Strongosky in", "date"=>"2025."}
- date_start
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1961
- keydate
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1961
- date_end
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2018
- date_inclusive_start
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1961
- date_inclusive_end
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2018
- extent_statement
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5.43 linear feet (13 boxes, 1 oversize folder). 837.1 megabytes (12 computer files). 27 audio recordings. 60 video recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Anita Feldman Tap collection, *MGZMD 496. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}