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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>"}