Biographical materials Series 1. 1930-1998
Photographs Subseries 1.1.
Family and friends photographs (ca. 1930-2011)
Portraits (ca. 1950-1998)
Group photographs (ca. 1963-1997)
Oversized portraits and group photographs including Capezio Award Ceremony (1963) and the Legacy of the Masters Tribute to Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle (1991)
McKayle's early dance career
Sophie Maslow' company
Champion
Raincheck
Village I Knew
Pearl Primus picture postcard
Martha Graham and Company (ca. 1955-1956)
Jungle Drums on The Fred Waring Show
Amahl and the Night Visitors, a television opera produced by Gian Carlo Menotti (1964)
Oversized Amahl and the Night Visitors
Bless You All
Travel pictures (ca. 1955-1956)
Award Ceremonies
Autobiography and early life Subseries 1.2.
"I Will Dance With You" (ca. 1994)
Manuscript draft
Early typescript draft
"The New Dance Group"
"At the Feet of Masters"
"Around the World"
"Lea"
"Starting Over"
"Hollywood"
"At Home Abroad"
Revised typescipt draft
Chapter 1 "Early Moments"
Chapter 2 "The New Dance Group"
Chapter 3 "Games"
Chapter 4 "At the Feet of Masters"
Chapter 5 "Around the World"
Chapter 6 "Rainbow Round My Shoulder"
Chapter 7 "District Storyville"
Chapter 8 "Lea"
Chapter 9 "Starting Over"
Chapter 10 "Hollywood"
Chapter 11 "Raisin"
Chapter 12 "At Home Abroad"
Chapter 13 "The Broadway Banana Peel"
Chapter 14 "Artist Professor"
Foreword and Index
Book Cover Drafts
Edited chapters 8-10
Publisher correspondence (1991-1993)
Publicity Material
Curriculum vita, biography, and chronology
Passports (1955, 1959, 1964, 1970, 1975, and 1983)
Diplomas, merit certificates and school materials
1940
City of New York, Department of Parks certificate
1944
Junior high school diploma
William W. Niles Junior High School service certificate
1945
Magpie, the literary art publication of DeWitt Clinton High School
American Association of Teachers of French certificate
American Association of Teachers of Spanish certificate
1946
American Association of Teachers of Spanish certificates (2 items)
1947
De Witt Clinton High School outstanding service certificate
High school diploma
League of The Artista
Letters of accomodation (2 items)
Commencement program
List of awards and prizes
Yearbook
Senior hat
Junior high school diploma (1943)
High school diploma (1947)
Clippings from early dance career
New Dance Group
Martha Graham Company
Monthly planners
1994
1995
1996
Bibliography
Printed items Subseries 1.3.
Excerpts
Chujoy, Anatole and P.W. Manchester, The Dance Encylopedia.
Cohen, Selma Jeanne, The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief.
Emery, Lynne Fauley, Black Dance From 1619 to Today
Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer, Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts.
In Love With The Flame.
Jiang-jing, Modern Dance (Chinese).
Long, Richard A., The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance.
McDonagh, Don, The Complete Guide to Modern Dance.
Penrod, James, and Janice Gudde Plastino, The Dancer Prepares.
Sorell, Walter (ed.), The Dance Has Many Faces (2nd ed.), Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1966.
Thorpe, Edward, Black Dance. (Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1990).
Woll, Allen, Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls.
Clippings
1953
1960, 1963, 1964, 1968
1970
1971
1973
1982
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
Undated clippings
California Newspapers
Los Angeles Newspapers
Orange County Newspapers
New York Area
Various Newspapers
Miscellaneous items
Ephemera from Martha Graham tour (1955)
Color separation for 'Still Stretching" ( Gumbo Ya-Ya, 1994)
Rendering for biographical insert (Donald McKayle and Lea Vivante)
Alvin Ailey Memorial Program (1989)
Friends
Universal Ministries
Published Articles (by Donald McKayle)
Published Articles (about Donald McKayle), 1994-2002
Awards and honors Subseries 1.4.
Capezio award (1963)
Waltann School of Creative Arts awards (1964)
NAACP Image Award for Sophisticated Ladies (1982)
"Black Visions '89: Movements of Ten Dance Masters" (1989)
Distinguished Artists Forum speech (1989)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Tribute "All McKayle Evening" (1991)
"Black Choreographers Moving Towards the 21st Century: Legacy of the Masters: A Historical Tribute to Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle" (1991)
Griot Productions and the Fifth Annual Black Dance Conference certificate of appreciation (1992)
Lauds and Laurels, UCI Alumni Association (1992)
Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award (1992)
American Black Achievements award (1993)
American Dance Guild Award: American Black Arts Award in Fine Arts (1994)
AUCI/UCI Alumni Association: Most Outstanding Professor, School of Fine Arts (1994)
Second Annual Lehman Award (1994)
Living Legend award (1994)
National Black Arts Festival: Award for Distinguished Achievement (1994)
California Dance Educators Association Heritage award (1995)
National Dance Residency Program award (1995)
Resolution from the County of Los Angeles (1995)
City and Country of Denver Proclamation: "Masterworks: A Tribute to Donald McKayle Days" (1997)
Nominations for Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Award (Choreography)
Golden Boy, including program (1965)
Raisin (1973-1974)
Doctor Jazz (1974-1975)
Sophisticated Ladies (1980-1981)
Certificates
Fellow of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters (1969)
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1976-1977)
Drama - Logue (1978)
Outer Critics Circle award (1980-1981)
Foster award (1982)
Professional Dancers Society ceritficate of appreciation (undated)
A Salute to Black Theatre: The 18th Annual Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Awards, 2008 June 30
Opera Noir, 2006
UCI 20th Anniversary, 2009
Infinite Journey (UCI Libraries exhibit)
Tributes and Retrospectives
Dance/USA
National Dance Association, 2004
Miscellaneous
Interviews and documentaries Subseries 1.5.
Film and video
Conversation with Donald McKayle, Dancer/Choreographer, Dance Pioneers (1990).
ICW Conversation with the Masters: Stuart Hodes, Linda Hodes, Donald McKayle and Betty Jones (June 17,1992)
Conversations with Contemporary Masters of American Modern Dance: Speaking of Dance: Donald McKayle, American Dance Festival video (VHS, 1992)
Donald McKayle: Games, Rainbows, and Other Dances produced by Dance Pioneers (VHS, January 5, 1995)
Donald McKayle, Griot Productions "California Gold," Interview footage
Donald McKayle: Singing His Life at the University of Hawaii Department of Theatre Arts (VHS, November 11, 1996)
"Dance Maker, Peace Maker, Donald McKayle, November 28" Part 3 of the Pushing the Envelope Series (2 tapes, VHS)
Charles Couralt, Toni (Morrison), Dorothea (Freitag)-Cast (Beta 500)
Ponchita, Pierce, interview with McKayle and Morrison (Beta 500)
Dance Choreographer Donald McKayle: From Harlem to Hollywood (VHS)
[Unidentified with Hebrew text], Jerusalem
Audio recordings
"Capezio Dance Awards" (March 19, 1963)
"All McKayle Evening," City Center (December 19, 1991)
"Donald McKayle"
"Donald McKayle" by Jean Battey Lewis for National Public Radio
"Legacy of the Masters: Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle" talk by Richard Long
"The Roast" (Panel testimonials with speech by McKayle)
National Public Radio transcripts
Interview with Abby Ellis (1986)
"Dance Notes" (1991)
"Choreographer Donald McKayle Not Slowing Down at 63" (1994)
Transcript of interview with Donald McKayle by Jacqui P. [?] for an MFA thesis project (1992)
Concert dance Subseries 2.1.
Album Leaves
Terzo Festival Dei Due Mondi (1960)
Djazzex (1987)
UCI (1993)
Batsheva Dance Company (1976)
American Folk Suite (1954)
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited
Lula Washington Dance Theatre
Choreographer's Showcase (1994)
Showcase Gold Coast (1994)
15th Anniversary Season (1995)
Repertory Dance Theatre (undated)
Riverside Community College Dance (1994)
Apsaras
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre (1985, 1990)
Avatar
San Antonio Ballet (1984)
Black New World (1967)
Festival Internazionale Del Balletto, Geneva
Strand Theatre, England
Teatro Estivo
Teatro Romano
Torino
Blood Memories
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (1977)
Collage
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (1984)
Daughters of the Garden
Batsheva Dance Company (1964)
Escuela National de Danza (Uruguay 1992)
Harkness Ballet (ca. 1965-1966)
UCI (1995)
District Storyville
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company at American Dance Festival (1989, 1992)
Games
Donald McKayle Dancers (1952)
New Dance Group Company (1953)
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company at American Dance Festival (1988)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (1990, 1991)
Dallas Black Dance Theatre (1991)
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (1992)
UCI (1992)
Cleveland Ballet (1995)
Gumbo Ya-Ya
San Francisco Ballet (1994)
Heartbeats
Limón Dance Company (1997)
House of Tears (Casa de Lagrimas)
Ballet Nuevo Mundo (1993)
San Jose Cleveland Ballet (1992, 1993)
Infinite Journey
Loyola Marymount University (1991)
"Lust" from The Seven Deadly Sins
UCI (1997)
Migrations
California State University, Long Beach (1991)
Mysteries and Raptures
Program Notes
Nocturne
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (1995)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (1984, 1990, 1995)
Inner City Repertory Dance Company (1985)
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company at American Dance Festival (1988)
New Dance Group Gala Concert (1993)
University of Washington, 2009
Reflections in the Park
Donald McKayle (1964)
Ring-a-levio
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (1993)
UCI (1990)
Sombra Y Sol (Images of Frieda Kahlo)
UCI (1991)
Program Notes
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (1992)
Program Notes
Limón Dance Company (1995)
Songs of the Disinherited
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (1990, 1991)
Lula Washington's Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theater (1991)
UNCW (1991)
"Upon the Mountain" from Songs of the Disinherited
Lula Washington's Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Theatre (1994)
Vévé ( Vever)
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (1987)
UCI (1994)
Vigils
American Dance Festival (1994)
When I Grow Up...When I Was a Child
UCI (1995)
Multiple billings and retrospectives
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited; District Storyville; Games; Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1991)
American Dance Guild Festival
American Repertory Dance Company/ Trailblazers: Dancers of Change Honoring the Work of Agnes de Mille and Donald McKayle
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited; Saturday's Child; and "Spanish Tinge" from Album Leaves (1995)
Black Dance Companies Conference
Games and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1992)
Chuck Davis African-American Dance Ensemble
Distant Drum and Games (1990)
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble
Songs of the Disinherited and Saturday's Child (1990)
Blood Memories and Sombra Y Sol (Images of Frieda Kahlo) (1994)
"Angelitos Negros from Songs of the Disinherited; Blood Memories; and Sombra Y Sol (Images of Frieda Kahlo) (1995)
Cleveland Ballet
Games and House of Tears (1995)
Daniel Nagrin and Donald McKayle
Songs of the Forest; Saturday's Child; and Games (undated)
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Games; Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder; and District Storyville (1989)
Donald McKayle
Infinite Journey; "Wounded Flesh" from Sombra Y Sol; and "Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited (1991)
Donald McKayle and Company
Games and Nocturne (1953)
Four Vignettes; Games; Her Name was Harriet; and Nocturne (1956)
Games and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1959)
Games; Nocturne;and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1963)
Nocturne; Bursts of Fists; District Storyville; Games; Daughters of Eden; and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1967)
Donald McKayle/Normand Maxon Dance Company
Legendary Landscape; Games; District Storyville; and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1961)
Games and Her Name was Harriet (1990)
Inner City Repertory Dance Company
Daughters of Eden; District Storyville; Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder; and Sojourn (1971)
Daughters of Eden; Games; Migrations; and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1972)
Los Angeles Dance Theatre
Saturday's Child and "Spanish Tinge" from Album Leaves (1995)
San José/Cleveland Ballet
Games and House of Tears (1995)
Stage for Dancers
Creole Afternoon; Exodus; and Saturday's Child (1950)
Creole Afternoon; Saturday's Child; and Songs of the Heart (1952)
Souvenir programs
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1983, 1990)
Jacob's Pillow (1963)
Miscellaneous
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1989, 1990)
American Dance Festival (1990)
Lea Vivante: Dances of Spain (1969)
San José Cleveland Ballet (1992)
Programs in Hebrew (1985, undated)
Death & Eros
Night club acts Subseries 2.2.
Harry Belafonte (1959)
Television Subseries 2.3.
The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971)
The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977)
Theater Subseries 2.4.
Ain't Nothing but the Blues (1997)
Golden Boy (1964 and undated)
House of Flowers (1987)
I'm Solomon (1968 and undated)
Raisin (1972-1973 and undated)
Rockin' With Rachmoninov (1991)
Shimmy (1994)
Sophisticated Ladies (1980-1983 and undated))
South Pacific (1986)
Stardust (1988-1990)
Threepenny Opera (1992-1993)
West Side Story (1991-1992)
Program Notes
Miscellaneous, 1999-2017
Synopses, scripts, and production notes Series 3. 1975-2010
Synopses Subseries 3.1.
Concert dance
Distant Drum (1990 and undated)
Ella, 2006
House of Tears (1992)
Mysteries and Raptures (1993)
Sombra Y Sol (1990)
Theater
"Duke," original title for piece that became Sophisticated Ladies
Emperor Jones
The Last Minstrel Show (undated)
N' Orleans-The Storyville Musical (undated)
Shimmy (1994-1995)
Sophisticated Ladies
Scripts Subseries 3.2.
Duke (First draft of Sophisticated Ladies, 1978)
House of Flowers (annotated 1986)
The Last Minstrel Show
N' Orleans: The Storyville Musical (annotated, 1982 and 1984)
Raisin
Shimmy (1993 and undated)
Sophisticated Ladies (1980)
Storyville (1981)
Untitled partial script
White Hot Black Spice, 2009
Production notes Subseries 3.3.
Concert dance
Album Leaves
Ash
Big Beat
Blood Memories
Children of the Passage
Collage
Come and See the Peppermint Tree
Continents of Humanity (Part 1)
Cross Roads
Games
Danger Run
Danger Run
Death & Eros
District Storyville
Gumbo Ya-Ya
Heartbeats
Hey Hay Goin to Kansas City
House of Tears
Images of Struggle & Survival
Infinite Journey
Jamnation
Long Lonesome Way
Looking for Jerusalem (ca. 1985)
The Masque of the Red Death
Midnight Dancer
Nocturne
Noir
Personal
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Notebook
List of dancers who worked with McKayle
Labanotation score by Mary Corey (1993)
Labanotation score by Wendy Chu (1994)
Rainbow Etude
Rainbow Suite
Reverie
Ringalevio and Distant Drum
Rockin' with Rachmaninoff
The Questioning of Robert Scott
Sanctuary
Saturday's Child
Sinuous Tattoo
Sky - Clouds - then Israel
Sombra Y Sol
Songs of the Disinherited 2006-2007
Syncopated Gambol, 2007
They Called Her Moses
Vo-Du Macbeth, 2001
Women of Troy: Dancefusion Reconstruction, 2005
Theater
Dink's Blues
Emperor Jones (undated)
Hot Feet
House of Flowers (1986)
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
Kiss Me, Kate
The Last Minstrel Show (undated)
The Minstrel Man (1975)
N'Orleans
Return
Roller Derby
Shimmy
Sophisticated Ladies (undated)
West Side Story
White Hot Black Spice, 2007-2009
Cast lists
District Storyville
Games
Heartbeats (1996)
Ring-a-levio
Sombra Y Sol (Cleo Parker Robinson Ensemble and UCI)
Sorcerer's Apprentice, 2006
West Side Story (1991)
Donald McKayle and Company and Inner City Repertory Dance Company members (1951-1973)
Photographs Series 4. ca. 1951-1995 and undated
Performance and publicity Subseries 4.1.
Concert Dance
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited
Arena
Oversized Arena
Barrio
Black New World
Blood Memories
Blood of the Lamb
Oversized Blood of the Lamb
Daughters of the Garden
Oversized Daughters of the Garden
District Storyville
Oversized District Storyville
Four Excursions
Games
Oversized Games
Legendary Landscape
Midnight Dancer
Migrations
Nocturne
Oversized Nocturne
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Oversized Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Reflections in the Park
The Return
Sojourn
Sombra Y Sol
They Called Her Moses
Wilderness
Various performances
Companies (contact sheets with multiple dances)
Donald McKayle and Company
Arena
Blood of the Lamb
Daughters of the Garden
District Storyville
Games
Legendary Landscape
Nocturne
Rainbow Round My Shoulder
Sojourn
Inner City Repertory Dance Company
Performance
Company pictures
Scrapbook (1971)
San Francisco Ballet
Individual dancers
Flanders, Ashley
Hodes, Linda M.
Maxon, Normand
Mills, George
Powell, Stephanie
Unidentified dancers
Television
Cindy
Bill Cosby Special
Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman (Mary Tyler Moore)
The Strollin' Twenties
Film
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Oversized Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Theater
Emperor Jones
Golden Boy
Raisin
Sophisticated Ladies
Other
Jonathan Atkin Photography: Choreographers: A Continuing Series, 1992
Copies of prints made by UCI Libraries
Miscellaneous productions, undated
Teaching and rehearsal Subseries 4.2.
Donald McKayle and Company (undated)
Boston, Massachusetts (ca. 1963)
Florida State University (ca. 1979)
Portland State University in Portland, Oregon (1983)
International Sommerakademie des Tanz in Köln, Germany (ca. 1973-1976)
McKayle teaching Rainbow Round My Shoulder in Moscow to dancers from Bolshoi Ballet; Free Ballet; Marseyev Company; and Russian Seasons Ballet Company (1993)
Unspecified
Etude Ensemble
Amsterdam, 2005
Negatives Subseries 4.3.
Unprocessed negatives
Concert dance
Album Leaves performed by the Bat Sheva Dance Company (PAL)
Blood Memories presented by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Collage performed by "The Company We Keep," Portland State University in Portland Oregon.
District Storyville
Kinescope (October 21, 1962)
Video of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (VHS)
Video (No "Little Lou")
Games
Video of African American Dance Ensemble at the American Dance Festival (VHS, 1981)
Video of rehearsal with singers (High 8)
Videos of rehearsals (2 tapes, High 8)
Video of McKayle on Games (High 8)
Games and Vever (premiere) performed by Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble for Tenth Anniversary (Beta L-500 and VHS, 1984)
Gumbo Ya-Ya (February 10, 1994)
House of Tears
Cleveland Ballet (November 11 and 14, 1992)
Looking For Jerusalem with Donald McKayle and M. Shlomo Gillinich (PAL)
Mysteries and Raptures performed by Cleveland Ballet (October 17, 1993)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Kinescope (June 14, 1959)
Preservation master
Video (Beta 500, June 14, 1965)
Ricochet
Ring-a-levio performed by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (May 2, 1993)
Songs of the Disinherited performed by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (seven-minutes excerpt, 1991)
Solaris
They Called Her Moses produced by Dance Pioneers, Camera 3 Production (VHS, April 30, 1960)
Television
The Cosby Show (Beta)
43rd Annual Academy Awards excerpt of "Thank You Very Much"
49th Annual Academy Awards
Academy Award dance numbers
Ann Margaret, Lea Vivante, and Ben Vereen (Beta)
Free to Be You and Me (Beta)
Theater
Dancin' in the Streets (VHS, April 19, 1984)
Rockin' With Rachmaninoff at the Barnsdale Gallery Theatre (June 7 and 8, 1991)
Stardust (December 1988)
Storyville
Music scores Subseries 6.1.
Concert dance
Angelitos Negros
Black New World; Blood Memories
Blood of the Lamb (ca. 1963)
Bursts of Fists
Games (1949)
Prelude for Action composed by Alonso Levister
"Jackleg Preacher"
Rainbow ' Round My Shoulder
"Darlin'"
They Called Her Moses (1969)
Traditions (dance piece by Charles Weidman)
Night Club Acts
"I'm the Greatest Star," Aretha Franklin (2 copies)
"Kenya Greeting Song," Belafonte Singers
Television
Bill Cosby Show
"Someone Else's Bag"
The Dick Van Dyke Show
"On the Other Hand"
Theater
One More Time
"Blues in the Night"
A Time for Singing
"Come You Men"
Emperor Jones
Golden Boy (1964)
wa
Queenie Pie, Opera Buffa by Duke Ellington (1974)
Sorcerer's Apprentice, 2006
White Hot Black Spice, 2009
Miscellaneous
William Grant Still
Lyrics Subseries 6.2.
Concert Dance
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited
District Storyville
"Michie Banjo" from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre version
Games (undated)
Shades of Love
Theater
House of Flowers
The Road to Jerusalem
"Where's Jerusalem" (Notes in Hebrew)
Reel to reel Subseries 7.1.
Concert dance
Arena (1963)
Barrio (1972)
Blood of the Lamb (3 reels 1963)
Daughters of the Garden
District Storyville
"How Green is My Valley " from A Time For Singing (2 reels)
Kicks and Co. (2 reels)
Legendary Landscape
Migration (2 reels) (1971)
Muse in the News
Nocturne (2 reels)
"No. 1. Wind, No. 2 Windy-Reedy, No. 3. Flight" musical sketches
Pas de Deux/ Rhythms [1 reel]
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
"Canticle no. 3," Bennington College (ca. 1950-1955)
"Rainbow and Zulu", Valley Stream, New York
Preservation master
Sojourn (2 reels)
Solomon Solomon (2 reels)
Songs of the Disinherited
They Called Her Moses
Theater
Raisin (2 reels)
Television
"Exploring," music for "Baseball Ballet" NBC (2 reels)
Recording
Come and See the Peppermint Tree rehearsal "Don (Donald McKayle) and Evelyn" (1959)
Miscellaneous
"Charles Blackwell (production manager): Backstage at the Imperial Theatre"
"Dance Workshop" (1960)
"From Gwen Watson at Mills College, California" (1963)
"Mama on motherhood and other views" undated
"Miss Ruth St. Denis and class discussion, Pleasure Principles" 1966
"The Nazareth Home workshop" 1966
Cassette tapes Subseries 7.2.
Concert dance
Distant Drum (1989)
Games and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (interview)
Gumbo Ya-Ya
"Senegalese Ballet"
"Wayayé" (verticals and finale)
McKayle and James Newton (1993)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Television
The Last Minstrel Show
Theater
Duke (demo tape)
Rockin' with Rachmaninoff, including Horace Silver Band rehearsal (2 cassettes)
Shimmy (4 cassettes)
Records Subseries 7.3.
Golden Boy original Broadway cast recording 1964
Smithsonian American Musical Theater Series: Souvenirs of Hot Chocolate 1978
James Newton "Romance and Revolution" 1987
Graphic material Series 8. 1952-2009
Costume designs Subseries 8.1.
Concert dance
Blood Memories. Drawings by Lea Vivante (1994)
Cantes de (1994)
Daughters of the Garden . Drawings by Bernard Johnson (1995)
Devil in Massachusetts. Original drawings by Donald McKayle for the Mary Anthony Dance Company (1952)
Gumbo Ya-Ya (1994)
Songs of the Forest. Original drawings by Donald McKayle (1952)
Mysteries and Raptures. Drawings by by Lea Vivante (1993)
Theater
Emperor Jones (undated)
One More Time (My Heart Belongs to Broadway)
Sophisticated Ladies
Posters Subseries 8.2.
Concert dance
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1989)
Black New World (1967)
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble Presents "Masterworks: A Tribute to Donald McKayle"
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (annotated)
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 41st Anniversary Season (2009) 2009
Donald McKayle and Company
Donald McKayle and the ONU Choreography Showcase (2009) 2009
UCI Dance Visions Presents Generations (1995)
Fullerton College, 2009
Choreography festivals
XIV. Internationale Sommerakademie Des Tanzes Mit Wettbewerbjunger Choreographen (1970).
XV. Internationale Sommerakademie Des Tanzes Mit Wettbewerbjunger Choreographen (1971).
Theater
Black New World and Emperor Jones (1967)
Emperor Jones (1984)
Evolution of the Blues (undated)
Raisin (undated)
Unsorted
Committee for Freedom in Argentina (with letter from Maria Ferer) (undated)
Posters 1998-, 2007
Other graphic materials Subseries 8.3.
Set designs
Concert dance
Games
Theater
Free to Be You and Me, set mock up
N'Orleans: The Storyville Musical
Raisin, photograph of set
Dancers: Drawings, by Suzanne Rosenblatt (signed)
Reviews Subseries 9.1.
Concert dance Sub-subseries 9.1.1.
Album Leaves (1993)
American Folk Suite (1954)
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited (1994)
Blood Memories (1970-1976)
Collage (1984)
Distant Drum (1990)
District Storyville (1966-1992)
Games (1960-1995 and undated)
Gumbo Ya-Ya (1994-1995 and undated)
Heartbeats (1997)
House of Tears (1992-1993)
Mysteries and Raptures (1993)
Nocturne (1995)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1989-1995 and undated)
Reflections in the Park (1964)
Ring-a-levio (1990-1993)
Saturday's Child (1995-1996)
Sombra Y Sol (Images of Frieda Kahlo) (1991-1995)
Songs of the Disinherited (1990-1993)
Supplication (1998)
Vévé (1984-1989)
Concert dance (two dances) Sub-subseries 9.1.2.
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited and Nocturne (1994)
Daughters of the Garden and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1992)
Distant Drum and Games (1990)
Games and Her Name Was Harriet (1952)
Games and House of Tears (1993)
Games and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1960-1988 and undated)
I'm on My Way, Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1954)
Nocturne, The Street (1970)
Saturday's Child and Songs of the Disinherited (1990)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder and "I'm On My Way" from Songs of the Disinherited (1970)
Concert dance (three dances) Sub-subseries 9.1.3.
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited, District Storyville, and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1992)
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited, I'm on My Way, Saturday's Child (undated)
District Storyville, Games; and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1989-1991)
District Storyville, Nocturne; and Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1962)
Games, Nocturne, The Street (1971-1990 and undated)
Concert dance (four dances) Sub-subseries 9.1.4.
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited; "Suite" from Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder; Saturday's Child; and "Spanish Tinge" from Album Leaves (1995)
Barrio, Migrations, Rainbow 'Round My Shoulderand Sojourn (1972)
Daughters of Eden, District Storyville, Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder Sojourn (1971)
Reviews in Hebrew
Film Sub-subseries 9.1.5.
The Great White Hope (1970)
Night club acts Sub-subseries 9.1.6.
Rita Moreno (1978)
Theater Sub-subseries 9.1.7.
Dancin' in the Streets (Hebrew copy with English translation) (1984)
Dr. Jazz (1975)
Evolution of the Blues (1978)
The Emperor Jones (1984)
Golden Boy (1964 and undated)
House of Flowers (1987)
The Last Minstrel Show (1978)
Mass (1973 and undated)
Raisin (1973-1978 and undated)
Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991)
Sophisticated Ladies (undated)
Stardust (1990)
Threepenny Opera (1992)
West Side Story (1991)
Other publicity materials Subseries 9.2.
Clippings and press releases Sub-subseries 9.2.1.
9.2.1.1. Concert Dance
Album Leaves (1993)
"Angelitos Negros" from Songs of the Disinherited (1992, 1994-1995 and undated)
Avatar (1984)
Blood Memories (1976, 1994-1995)
Children of the Passage (1999)
District Storyville (1979, 1992-1993 and undated)
Games (1953, 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1995)
Gumbo Ya-Ya (1993-1994 and undated)
House of Tears (1992-1993, 1995)
Infinite Journey (1991)
Nocturne (1994)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1960, 1968-1969, 1992-1994, and undated)
Ring-a-levio (1990, 1993)
Sombra Y Sol (Images of Frieda Kahlo) (1991-1992, 1994 and undated)
Songs of the Disinherited (1993-1994 and undated)
Vigils (undated)
When I Grow Up...When I Was a Child (1995)
9.2.1.2. Concert Dance (Multiple Bills)
"Angelitos Negros ( Songs of the Disinherited)" and Nocturne (1994)
Creole Afternoon and Saturday's Child (1951)
Distant Drum; Saturday's Child; and Songs of the Disinherited (undated)
Games and Nocturne (1994)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder and Shimmy (theatre) (1992)
Saturday's Child and "Spanish Tinge" from Album Leaves (1995)
9.2.1.3. Television
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1969)
43rd Annual Academy Awards Program (1977)
Dancing in the Light (2007)
9.2.1.4. Theater
The Emperor Jones (1984-1985)
Evolution of the Blues (undated)
The Goober Man (ca. 1979)
House of Flowers (1987)
The Last Minstrel Show (1978 and undated)
N'OrleansThe Storyville Musical (1982)
Raisin (1973-1975, 1977 and undated)
Shimmy (1993)
Sophisticated Ladies (1989)
Stardust (1989-1990)
Threepenny Opera (1992)
West Side Story (1991 and undated)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2007)
9.2.1.5. Other Clippings
Clippings for Donald McKayle's research
Press: Kansas City 50th Anniversary
Magazine Press Clippings (1995-2010)
Internet Press Print Outs (1998-2010)
Mailers and advertisements Sub-subseries 9.2.2.
9.2.2.1. Concert Dance
Album Leaves
"Angelitos Negros" from District Storyville
Avatar
Blood Memories
Daughters of the Garden
District Storyville
Games
Gumbo Ya-Ya
Heartbeats
Her Name Was Harriet
House of Tears
Infinite Journey
Migrations
Nocturne
Rainbow Etudes
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Rhythms
Ring-a-levio
Sombra Y Sol
Songs of the Disinherited
Multiple bills
Miscellaneous (1990-2011)
9.2.2.2. Theatre
Emperor Jones
Golden Boy
The Last Minstrel Show
N' Orleans: The Storyville Musical
Threepenny Opera
West Side Story
Dance Companies not directly related to McKayle
1961-1977
1983-1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994-1998
Oversized card from American Dance Festival students (ca. 1997)
undated
UCI Alumni, 2003-2008
Sent Correspondence, 1992-2004
Received Correspondence, multiple dates
Professional activity Series 11. ca. 1989-2010
National and regional activity Subseries 11.1.
Advisory Sub-subseries 11.1.1.
Arts Recognition and Talent Search, panel member (1989-1990, 1993)
Black Choreographers Moving Towards the 21st Century, advisory committee (1989, 1992)
Black Choreographers Project, 2003
Black College Dance Exchange
CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, panelist (1995)
California Arts Council Fellowship Program, panelist (1991)
California Arts Project, 1993
Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation's 1993 Capezio Dance Award, advisor (1993)
City of Los Angeles, 2001
Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Discipline Advisory Committee for Fulbright Scholar Awards (1993, 1995)
Cultural Affairs Departments, panelist and presenter
City of Los Angeles (1990)
City of Irvine (1991-1992)
Dance/USA National Round-table, keynote speaker (1992, 1994)
Keynote address
Program
Dancing Wheels, 2006
International Association of Blacks in Dance
Irvine Barclay Theatre
Irvine Fellowship in Dance, 1998-2006
Jacob's Pillow
Limon Dance Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts Dance Advisory Overview Panel
1991
1992
1994 (Chair)
1995
National Endowment for the Arts, 1993-2008
National Foundation for Advancement for the Arts, Board of Trustees (1990, 1991-1992, 1993 1995)
NFAA, 2005-2007
NFAA: ARTS (Arts Recognition and Talent Search), 1993-2007
NFAA: Publicity Material, 2005-2006
National Society of Arts and Letters, judge for modern dance competition (1995)
NEST (New El Salvador Today) Foundation, Benefit Committee (1991)
Philadanco, executive committee (undated)
Saint Joseph Ballet
Saint Joseph Ballet Company, member of board (1991-1992)
USA (United States Artists), 2006-2007
Ballet contracts and negotiations Sub-subseries 11.1.2.
African & African-American Performing Arts Coalition, 2005
Ballet contract agreement
Colorado Ballet, 2001
Concor Dance
Dance Institute of Washington, 2006
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, 2001
Hartford Ballet, 1990
Kansas City Ballet, 2008
Loyola Marymount Unviversity Infinite Journey
Montclair University, 2009
Philadanco, 2010
University of Southern Florida, 2008
William Henry Danse Theatre, 2006
Conferences Sub-subseries 11.1.3.
American Dance Festivals, 1988-1998
Appearances/Speeches, 1995-2007
Black Dance Companies Conference (1991-1992)
Black Visions, 1989
California Dance Educators Association
Contemporary Black Arts Program (1990)
Dance: Black America, State University of New York and the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Dance Critics Association Conference, master of ceremonies (1990)
Dance Heritage Preservation, 1999-2001
Dance South L.A. Project, 2008
Dance/USA: Dance Choreographer's Initiative
Harlem Dance Foundation Photographs, 1999
International Dance & Technology, 1999
The Kennedy Center
Landscape of Dance
Masters of African American Choreography, 2005
National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance
NDEO: Conference Roster & Directory, 2000-2006
New Dance Group, 2005
Ohio Historical Society, late 1990s
Regional Dance America/Pacific Festival, 2000
Society of Dance History Scholars 15th Annual Conference (1992)
92nd Street Y, 1999-2000
Festivals and residencies Sub-subseries 11.1.5.
American College Dance Festival (1992, 2004)
Boston Summer Dance Festival, 2001
Cornish College, 2008
Dallas Black Dance Theatre, 2007
Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival, 2004
Distinguished Visiting Artist at Mills College, California (1992)
Forum International de Danse Jazz (Paris), 2006-2008
Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts (1991)
New World Flamenco Festival
Ohio Northern University: Restaging Games, 2009
Riverside Community College, 2002
Seattle Children's Theatre, 2003-2006
Southern Methodist University, 2007-2008
University of Akron, Ohio (1993)
University of Arizona, 2009
University of Iowa, 2006
Vassar College, 2006
Washington University Dance Theatre Scrapbook, 2001
Lectures and demonstrations, workshops and master classes Sub-subseries 11.1.6.
Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, 2005
Black Board of Director Project (1997)
California Arts Project, Master Artist/Educator, California State University, Dominguez Hills (1990)
Choreographers Resource Center
City of Beverly Hills, 1999-2001
Los Angeles Dance Theatre (1995)
NWPDP (Northwest Professional Dance Project), 2006-2008
San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, Letters from Students, 2012
Santa Monica College, 2008
Seinajoki, Finland Dance Symposium, 1997-2006
Tribute to Legendary Dancers at Longwood College, Virginia (1996)
West Coast Performing Arts Center in Mission Viejo, California (1991)
University of Kansas City Missouri, 2008-2009
Projects Sub-subseries 11.1.7.
American Dance Legacy Institute Interactive Etudes(1995-2000)
Artsource: The Music Center Study Guide to the Performing Arts (1990)
Dance Pioneers video/film documentary
Travel Documents, 2000-2009
American Dance Festival Subseries 11.2.
Administrative materials (1989, 1990, 1992)
"African American Genius in Modern Dance" (undated)
"ADF Durham: The First 15 Years" (undated)
Clippings
Directories (1993-1994)
Faculty Bios & Directories
Timeline
Newsletters
Programs
Schedules
University of California, Irvine Subseries 11.3.
Artistic Director of Dance Department
Department concerts
"Dances in Painted Light" (1991)
"Dance Spectrum" (1992)
Costume budget for Epistola Despre Sinje
"Dance Visions II" (1997)
"New Slate" (1992)
"Transfigured Pueblo, MFA II" (1992)
New Slate, 1999-2008
Revamped: The Language of Movement, undated
Celebrate UCI, 2009
Dance Visions, 2003-2010
Dance Visions Scrapbook, 2016
Etude Ensemble
UCI Etude Ensemble, 1992-2011
UCI Etude Ensemble: El Camino College, 1996
UCI Etude Ensemble: UROP, 1997-2003
UCI Etude Ensemble: UCI/UCSB Exchange, 2002-2010
Etude Ensemble scrapbook 2008-2009
Guest artists
Dallas Black Dance Theatre residency (1992)
Sophie Maslow teaching The Village I Knew (1992)
Katheryn Posin (1993)
Pearl Primus, Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer (1990)
Stephanie Garcia, 2009
Oversized poster for Pearl Primus
Student Project: Sombra Y Sol by Richard Crawford
Schedules of classes (1992)
Service
School of Fine Arts
Campus including a proposal for a program in African American Studies
Campus Committees
UCI Medal Performances, 2006
UCI Medal Ceremony, 2003
Student Mentees, 1999-2007
Letters of recommendation for Donald McKayle appointment at UCI (1989)
UCI Alumni, 1998-2007
Undergraduate Dance Major Journal, 2010
UCI Graduate Dance, 2002-2009
10th Week Workshop, 2008-2010
School of the Arts Research Committee, 1998
Distinguished Faculty Leadership, 1997-1998
Costume Stock Policies & Procedures
Ektaa Center, 2007
Correspondence
Gestures of Life: Martha Graham's Legacy through the Lens of Barbara Morgan, 2004
McKayle Endowment, 2009
Production Budgets (2003, 2005, 2009)
Promotion Materials
Thank you notes from students undated
Research Materials
Obituaries, 1996-2008
VHS, CDs, and DVDs circa 1991-2016
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Box 7 1948-2011
Box 8 1948-2011
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Newspaper & magazine 2002
Angelitos Negros 2004
Newspaper & magazine 2001
Newspaper & Magazine 2000
Newspaper & Magazine 1999
Rainbow Round by shoulder 2004
Campus distinctions by committee 2002
Newspaper & magazine 2003
Free to Dance 2003
Chief executive round table retreat 2002
Heartbreaks of a Dancer 2007
Retrospectives 2002-2003
Book chapters undated
Newspaper & magazine 2004
Midnight Dancer: Dance Visions 2004
The River 2004
ASH 27th Bren Fellows lecture 2003
Heartbeats of a Dance Maker 2003
It Ain't Nothing But the Blues 1999-2004
Cross Roads 2001
Death and Eros 2000
Damnation 2000
Danger Run 1999
Transcending Boundaries - My Dancing Life 2002
America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures 2001
UCI Medal 2000
Various awards 2002
Invited lectures 2001-2003
UCI Etude Ensemble 2003
Art source 2004
Vow 2002-2003
Paris 2009
Etudes Choregraphiques 2007
Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater 2008
UCI Arts Week 1999
Infinite Journey 1998
ASH choreography Donald McKayle, music Alan Terricciano Irvine Barclay Theatre 2002
Heartbeats of a Dance Maker undated
Free to Dance: Go For What You Know (tape 3 of 3) undated
Free to Dance: Steps of the Gods (tape 2 of 3) undated
Limon Moving into the Future undated
Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance undated
Tantalus: Behind the Mask undated
San Luis Potos 2001
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