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Title: Joah Lowe collection
Dates: circa 1982-1986
Collection Number: 2019-77
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3 linear feet (1 carton, 1 half manuscript box, 1 painting)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Joah Lowe was a gay San Francisco-based choreographer, dancer, and healer. The collection includes theater, performance and
dance ephemera, performance and dance production notes, and related art and artifacts.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright owned by the donor has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. Certain material may remain copyrighted
to the creator. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing
to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
[Identification of item]. Joah Lowe collection. Collection Number: 2019-77. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Nancy Halloran, September 2019.
Scope and Content of Collection
Joah Lowe was a gay San Francisco-based choreographer, dancer, and healer. He died in 1988 from AIDS. The collection includes
material collected by Charlie Halloran, a dancer who worked with Lowe. Halloran died in 1993 from AIDS. The collection includes:
theater, performance and dance ephemera, including flyers, magazines, and programs, with material related to Joah Lowe dance
and lessons in the art of flying, Christopher Beck and Company, Theatre Rhinoceros, Cal Performances, and others; a costume
sketch by Charlie Halloran; performance and dance production notes, including material for Fire in the Lake; a T-shirt picturing
Joah Lowe; a portrait painting of Joah Lowe by Bill Samios; a small amount of correspondence; newspaper clippings related
to Joah Lowe; and an oversized “death mask” (in the shape of a skull/face) used in a dance by Joah Lowe. GSSO linked terms:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004299; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004301;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521
Dance
Gay men
Theater
AIDS (disease)
Lowe, Joah
Halloran, Charlie