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The SAA Performing Arts Roundtable Performance! The SAA Performing Arts Roundtable encourages the exchange of information on historical and contemporary SUMMER 2013 NEWSLETTER OF THE SA A PERFORMING ARTS ROUNDTABLE documentation of music, dance, theater, motion pictures, and other performance media. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Message Page 3 from the Co-Chair Tom Page 4 Patrick, Archivist of the Paul Taylor Dance Company Institute of Page 12 Outdoor Drama Center for Page 18 Black Music Research University of Page 24 Arizona’s Dance Resources Center News Page 29 P A G E 2 Performance! Jeni Dahmus, Co-Editor Helice Koffler, Co-Editor Amber D’Ambrosio, Assistant Archivist Manuscripts and Special Newsletter Editor The Juilliard School Collections Materials Cataloging Special Collections Librarian New York, New York Librarian Dixie State University Library [email protected] University of Washington St. George, Utah Seattle, Washington [email protected] [email protected] Image Credits Pages 16-17: Institute of Outdoor Drama Pages 18-19: Melba Liston Collection, Center for Black Music Research Page 20, top: photo by J.B. Otto from Plantation Songs for My Lady's Banjo, and Other Negro Lyrics and Monologues by Eli Shepperd (New York: R.H. Russell, 1901) Page 20, bottom: University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Picture Collection, #3062, Special Cover: Paul Taylor performing his 7 New Dances, Collections Jenny Wiley Theatre’s 1957; photo © Robert Rauschenberg Founda- 2008 production of A tion/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Pages 21-23: Center for Black Music Research Chorus Line Page 2: Angie Carriere, Institute of Outdoor Page 24: University of Arizona College of Fine Drama Arts Page 3: Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University Pages 25-28: Irlanda Jacinto Page 4: Lois Greenfield, Paul Taylor Dance Page 29: Lloyd Thaxton Collection, Northwest- Company (PTDC) Archives ern University Archives Pages 5-6: Paul B. Goode, PTDC Archives Page 30: James J. Richardson, American Organ Institute Page 7: PTDC Archives Page 31, top: Celia Adler Papers, American Page 8: Fannie Helen Melcer, PTDC Archives Jewish Historical Society Pages 9-11: PTDC Archives Page 31, bottom: Nickolas Murray, J. Willis Sayre Photograph Collection, print S-N-130, University Pages 12-13: Institute of Outdoor Drama of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Page 14: Jenny Graham, Institute of Outdoor Page 32, top: Rebekah Bowman, Museum of Drama Performance + Design Page 15: Joe E. Murray, Institute of Outdoor Page 32, bottom: Rick Schmidlin, Stratford Drama Festival PERFORMANCE! SUMMER 2013 P A G E 3 Message From the Co-Chair The Performing Arts Roundtable Steering Committee is Eugenia Kim of the New York Public thrilled to be in New Orleans for the SAA annual Library will discuss a current project to make meeting this year. We have been working on a dynamic dance videos available online. program and tour that will certainly bring NOLA performing arts history alive. Here is a glimpse of our Bruce Raeburn, Director of Special presenters: Collections and Curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University, will present on TOUR the Historic New Orleans Collection on the collaborations with Music Rising, a non- Thursday, August 15 at 3:00 pm. Nina Bozak will lead a profit that has given Tulane a million dollars tour of the research center at 533 Royal Street. to build a curriculum called Musical Cultures of the Gulf South. Part of this project entails The PERFORMING ARTS ROUNDTABLE will construction of an oral history database with meet on Friday, August 16 from 4:00 pm-5:30 pm: transcripts linked to MP3 files from the collection available online. Cecily Marcus from the University of Minnesota Performing Arts Archives will I would like to thank the Performing Arts Roundtable discuss theater archives and African-Ameri- and its members for all the hard work and support in can cultural history. program planning, updating our web presence (still a work-in-progress), and the feat of adopting by-laws. Natalia Fernández from the Oregon Multicultural Archives, Oregon State Universi- I will be sorry to miss the meeting in one of my most ty, and a member of the American Theatre favorite cities, but wish you all a visit as extravagant as Archive Project’s (ATAP) Northwest team, New Orleans itself! will discuss her work with the Miracle Theatre Group and report briefly on current Sylvia Kollar ATAP initiatives. Co-Chair of the Performing Arts Roundtable Bassist Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau inter- viewed in his kitchen by Tulane Univer- sity’s Hogan Jazz Archive founders Rich- ard B. Allen (left) and Bill Russell (right), 1958 P A G E 4 ARCHIVIST SPOTLIGHT Tom Patrick, Archivist of the Paul Taylor Dance Company Interview by Sylvia Kollar, Co-Chair of the Performing Arts Roundtable Tom Patrick was a valued member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1989 to 1999, origi- nating roles in many of Taylor’s new creations of that period as well as performing featured roles in dances such as Last Look, Company B, Syzygy, Cloven Kingdom, Speaking in Tongues, and Danbury Mix. Representing the company, he has performed as a guest artist at numerous galas and festivals in the New York area and abroad. Patrick has been featured in Taylor’s work in the Emmy-winning film Speaking in Tongues and the Oscar-nominated feature documentary Dance- maker. From 1999 to 2004, he performed with the Metropolitan Opera. His recent performance opportunities have been in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in New York, and in choreographic pro- jects with his wife, NYU Steinhardt professor Deborah Damast. After retiring from full-time per- forming, Tom returned to the Taylor family to direct Taylor 2 from 2004 to 2008, acted as Direc- tor of Touring for the company until 2010, and now serves as Taylor’s Archival Supervisor. From 2007 to 2011, Sylvia Kollar assisted with Paul Taylor Dance Company archives through the Winthrop Group, which worked with the company from 1998 to 2011. How were you introduced to Paul in the world. It was not pyrotechnic or Taylor’s work? anything that I had been given to believe, and Tom Patrick in Paul Taylor’s so I kind of cut that short after about 15 Arden Court I was first introduced to his work in the mid- minutes and went back to my class. Later I 1980s while a student at Jacob’s Pillow. I was was able to help to usher, along with other a ballet dancer, and as scholarship students, and in the last part of the ballet training performance I got to sit and see the show, program up there, I which featured the newly-minted Roses, Last collided with all kinds of Look, and then Esplanade. modern dance, very happily throughout the Who were some of the dancers? summer. I saw company after company come, and Chris Gillis, David Parsons, Cathy McCann, the last one of my stay Kate Johnson, Doug Wright (just the stars)— there was Paul Taylor’s, the original casts of two of those dances, which I’d heard very which were made months before. They were much about. But it being ferocious. When I watched Roses, it made me those days, I’d seen feel like I had been as romantically expressive maybe one Great as a caveman on stage within a ballet Performances [program] company. Then I just about threw up in the on television and read theater because Last Look was so visceral and about others in disturbing. It was a different sort of dance magazines. I knew there experience because it was pain and ugliness. was this great acclaim, Esplanade was just amazing virtuosity and this golden era happening warmth. So that was my first exposure to with Paul’s work. They seeing them dance. Subsequently, I came to were getting so much New York and took some classes during deserved press. I skipped spring breaks, and really fell in love with it. a class to watch them do their tech rehearsal and What was the audition process like? sneaked into the theater. As they always do, they Since I was already dancing in a company, I’d reversed the order of the asked the Taylor company manger, Henry program—they started Liles, to notify me when auditions were with the last piece, which was Esplanade. As coming up, and he did. I couldn’t make the the first section is just walking and running in audition proper because I had a performance circles, I thought it was the most boring thing in New Orleans. I got permission to come to PERFORMANCE! SUMMER 2013 P A G E 5 Aileen Roehl, Eran Bugge, Jeffrey Smith, Michelle Fleet, Robert Kleinendorst, and Jamie Rae Walker in Taylor’s Esplanade the callback because they knew who I was. So I flew misunderstood as “black guy.” They said, “Paul, there up here [New York] after a performance in New weren’t any black guys.” In the end, Paul said, “black Orleans. The next morning I went down to the studio eye!” So that’s how they found me. with all the other callback people—there were like 50 guys. I’d been mugged the week before in Cincinnati That’s fantastic! where I lived, so I had this great black eye, which I covered in makeup in my ballet performances. I went Yeah, so I was able to go back to Cincinnati the next through the callbacks—it was exhausting, you know, morning with all this good news, and my director let and most of it foreign to me. One of the big jumping me out of my contract early and a week later I was things we did was the Sacre [du Printemps] policeman’s here understudying.
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