Nancy Karp + Dancers records, approximately 1970-2020

Summary

Creators:

Karp, Nancy and Nancy Karp + Dancers

Extent:

14.25 linear feet (11 cartons, 1 box), 22 audiocassettes, 9 sound cassettes (DAT), 2 film reels, 7 videocassettes (Betamax), 19 videocassettes (U-matic), 22 videocassettes (VHS), 13 videocassettes (Hi8), 10 videocassettes (DVCAM), 1 videocassette (BetacamSP), 11 videocassettes (MiniDV), 26 videodiscs, and 17 sound discs (CD)

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

Nancy Karp + Dancers records, BANC MSS 2023/175, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains a variety of analog and digital material related to the performances of dance company Nancy Karp + Dancers from approximately 1970-2020, including photographs, slides, reviews, programs, ephemera, choreography notes and notebooks, grant proposals. Also included is a range of audiovisual recordings of the company's rehearsals, performances, and music.

Biographical / historical:

Nancy Karp + Dancers, a San Francisco dance company, was founded in 1980 by Nancy Karp, who has created more than 75 works for the company's dancers. The company is known particularly for its site-specific performance work, including performances commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, and a commission for the Choreographers' Festival at Yerba Buena Gardens. Karp has received numerous grants and awards for her work, including the Bay Area Dance Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (1995-96) to India, and dance company grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Rockefeller Foundation/MAP Fund.

Among Karp's acclaimed works is the 1993 work entitled Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass, created in collaboration with composer Alvin Curran and designers Jack Carpenter and Sandra Woodall. The work was premiered before sold-out houses at San Francisco's Theater Artaud.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Nancy Karp in 2023.

Processing information:

Processed by Bancroft accessioning and processing staff at at mixed level in 2023. Manuscript and photographic materials were minimally processed at Level 2 by Bancroft Accessioning and Processing staff in 2023. Collections that receive Level 2 processing processing are provided with a collection-level description and a simple box-level container listing. Donor's arrangement and original folders/labels were been retained in most cases with exception of folders replaced for stability or ease of handling. Unfoldered materials were foldered. Slides have been left in original binders. The container listing is derived from a donor-supplied spreadsheet listing of the collection's contents.

Audiovisual materials are listed in the finding aid at an item level to facilitate access.

Physical location:

Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Rules or conventions:

DACS

Related resources

Additional collection guides:

A spreadsheet prepared by Nancy Karp with additional details about collection materials is available from The Bancroft Library in electronic format and in the first folder of Carton 1 of this collection. Some tabs on this spreadsheet include details on particular dance pieces and their locations, composers, dancers, directors, photographers, musicians, and designers.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Dance companies -- California -- San Francisco
Dance -- California -- San Francisco

Names:

Nancy Karp + Dancers
Karp, Nancy

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research with the exception of the following:

Original archival audiovisual media in cartons 9-11 and box 1 is restricted due to fragility. Inquire with Bancroft Public Services regarding the creation of reading room viewing copies of audiovisual items.

Born-digital materials, which are currently in process. Interested researchers should submit a Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form for these materials. https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/unprocessed-collections-form

Terms of access:

Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For additional information about the University of California, Berkeley Library's permissions policy please see: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/permissions-policies

Preferred citation:

Nancy Karp + Dancers records, BANC MSS 2023/175, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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