Series I: American Tap Dance Foundation Files

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1659218
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3208437
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2021-11-02 18:58:22 UTC
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unitdate
{"value"=>"1935-2019", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1935/2019"}
{"value"=>"1986-2019", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1986/2019"}
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{"value"=>"Series I: American Tap Dance Foundation Files"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"69 boxes, 3 volumes, 3 tubes, 3 oversize folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"25.11 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4,387 computer files", "unit"=>"computer_files"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6.75 terabytes", "unit"=>"terabytes"}]}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series documents the activities of the ATDO/ATDF from its beginnings up to 2019 through video recordings, audio recordings, scrapbooks, photographs, programs, clippings, publicity material, press releases, and business correspondence.</p> <p>The video and audio recordings include rehearsals, performances, and workshops conducted by Brenda Bufalino, Tony Waag, and the American Tap Dance Orchestra; performances and other events presented at the annual Tap City: The New York City Tap Festival (2003-2019); benefit galas; performances by the Tap City Youth Ensemble; performances by Honi Coles; interviews with Brenda Bufalino and Tony Waag; footage produced for promotional purposes; and the documentary film <span class=\"title\">Thinking On Their Feet: Women Of The Tap Renaissance</span>. Video and audio documenting the activites of ATDF from the early 2000s onward can also be found in Series III.</p> <p>The programs, clippings, and publicity material span the history of ATDF/ATDO, and also include coverage of Brenda Bufalino's work with Honi Coles in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The scrapbooks contain programs, publicity literature and photographs, and span the history of the foundation to 2019.</p> <p>Photographs, both loose and in albums, document the Tap City festivals from 2001 to 2004; the life of Woodpeckers Tap Dance Center (1989-1995); and rehearsals, performances, and other events presented by ATDF. Also present is an album of photographs of over 100 historical and contemporary tap dancers, including Lynn Dally, Deborah Mitchell, Peggy Spina, Harriet Quicksand, Barbara Duffy, Bunny Briggs, Maurice Hines, Ernest \"Brownie\" Brown, Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson, Carnell Lyons, Fred Astaire, Ray Bolger, Danny Kaye, Ann Miller, Steve Condos, Charles \"Honi\" Coles, Michele Ribble, Marion Coles, Roxane Butterfly, Yvette W. Glover, Savion Glover, Lynn Schwab, Heather Holohan, Jill Kenney, Brandy Blaha, Josh Hilberman, Max Pollak, Michelle Dorrance, and Baby Laurence.</p> <p>Other files in this series include correspondence, press releases, and documentation regarding National Tap Dance Day, Woodpeckers Tap Dance Center, ATDF's benefit galas, and information on tap dancers including biographies, programs, clippings, and obituaries. The series also holds monthly newsletters; financial statements; advertising files; board and staff agendas, meeting minutes, and handbooks; New York City proclamations honoring tap dance and ATDF; and posters advertising ATDF events, other tap dance events, and films featuring Ray Bolger and Donald O'Connor.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Inquiries regarding audio and moving image materials in the collection may be directed to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division (dance@nypl.org). Audio and moving image materials will be subject to preservation assessment and migration prior to access.</p>"}
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1935
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1935
date_end
2019
date_inclusive_start
1935
date_inclusive_end
2019
date_bulk_start
1986
date_bulk_end
2019
extent_statement
25.11 linear feet (69 boxes, 3 volumes, 3 tubes, 3 oversize folders); 6.75 terabytes (4,387 computer files)

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  1. Administrative Files [2/1]
  2. Advertising [6/1]
  3. American Tap Dance Center [9/1]
  4. American Tap Dance Orchestra
  5. Benefit Galas [4/1]
  6. Biographies [10/1]
  7. Board and Staff Documents [4/1]
  8. Cultural Data Project Reports
  9. Financial Statements [17/1]
  10. Gertrude's Nose
  11. Jazz Dance Book Signing and Forum
  12. Leases [2/1]
  13. Logos and Letterheads [2/1]
  14. Marketing Files
  15. Milt and Honi
  16. National Tap Dance Day
  17. Newsletters 2003-2019 [10/1]
  18. Photographs [4/1]
  19. Posters [5/1]
  20. Press Releases and Publicity Material
  21. Press Reviews and Blurbs [5/1]
  22. Proclamations
  23. Programs, Clippings, and Publicity Literature [20/1]
  24. Quotes and Thank-Yous
  25. Scrapbooks [28/1]
  26. Statistics [4/1]
  27. Tap Dancer Information [2/1]
  28. Tap Fever
  29. Tax Exempt Documents
  30. Town Hall
  31. Travels with Tribble
  32. Winter Tap Intensive
  33. Women in Tap
  34. Woodpeckers Tap Dance Center [2/1]
  35. Workers Compensation Case
  36. Y Not Tap
  37. Video and Audio Recordings [25/1]