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Finding Aid for the Dance Department. Chair. Administrative files of Carol Scothorn.
1956-1991.
University Archives Record Series 571
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Title: Dance Department. Chair. Administrative files of Carol Scothorn.
Identifier/Call Number: University Archives Record Series 571
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.8 linear ft.
(2 boxes)
Date: 1956-1991
Abstract: Record Series 571 contains the administrative files of Carol Scothorn, Chair of the Dance Department from 1980 to 1990. Materials
include: correspondence; performance programs; news clippings; and announcements pertaining to the Dance Department and UCLA
Dance Company. Also in the collections are "exhibits notebooks" complied by Scothorn regarding her artistic and professional
achievements through out her career, as well as those of the dance company and department.
Creator:
Dance Department.
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Copyright of portions of this collection is held by The Regents of the University of California. The UCLA University Archives
can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish or quote
must be submitted in writing to the UCLA University Archivist.
[Identification of item], Dance Department. Chair. Administrative files of Carol Scothorn (University Archives Record Series
571). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives.
Dance at UCLA began as part of the physical education department on campus. Dance classes were offered as part of the physical
education major and for general college students. In 1957, a separate dance major was established; and in 1962, a graduate
program was established that offered a Master's degree in Dance. Also in 1962, the Department of Dance was established in
the College of Fine Arts. Alma H. Hawkins was the founding Chair. Hawkins began teaching at UCLA in 1953; and during her tenure,
she developed the first dance department at a U.S. university that served as a model for other dance programs and departments
around America and in Europe. She retired from UCLA in 1977.
Carol Scothorn was the Chair of the Dance Department from 1980 to 1990. She first came to UCLA in 1953 as a Junior Supervisor
in what was then the Physical Education Department. In 1957, she became an Assistant Supervisor; and in 1962, an Associate
Supervisor. She became an Associate Professor in 1967 and rose Professor in 1974. She retired from UCLA in 1991, as Professor
Emerita.
She was the first and only Director of the UCLA Dance Company, established in 1966.
Record Series 571 contains the administrative files of Carol Scothorn, Chair of the Dance Department from 1980 to 1990. Materials
include: correspondence; performance programs; news clippings; and announcements pertaining to the Dance Department and UCLA
Dance Company. Also in the collections are "exhibits notebooks" complied by Scothorn regarding her artistic and professional
achievements through out her career, as well as those of the dance company and department.
Photographic prints of dance performances were removed from Rec. Ser. 571 and relocated to the Photographic Files (Reference
Collection) Rec. Ser. 100 under the heading: Dance. Performances.
Box 2 is pending description.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
3466844