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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Allegra Fuller Snyder papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1881
Physical Description:
54 Linear Feet
(107 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1960-2010
Abstract: Research, personal and professional files of Allegra Fuller Snyder, professor emeritus and past chair of UCLA Dance Department
and World Arts and Cultures. Her research areas included performance dance, dance ethnology, dance therapy, and film as a
method of preserving and documenting dance.
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Language of Material:
English
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[Identification of item], Allegra Fuller Snyder papers (Collection 1881). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Allegra Fuller Snyder, 2011.
Processed by Marcia Melkonian in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Megan Hahn Fraser,
March 2012.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9969303203606533
Allegra Fuller Snyder, an early Chair of UCLA's Dance Department (1974-1980, Spring 1984, and 1990-1991), founding Coordinator
/ Chair for the Ethnic Arts Program cum World Arts and Cultures Department (1972-1983), Chair of the Faculty of the School
of Arts (1989-1991), and Professor of Dance/Dance Ethnology retired from UCLA in 1991. She was long-active with the Congress
on Research in Dance (CORD) and the National Endowment of Arts, dance division.
Snyder's areas of interest include: performance dance, dance ethnology, dance therapy, and film as a method of preserving/documenting
dance. An early advocate of dance preservation on film for use in education, she produced historical films about Mary Wigman
and about Baroque dance, a performance dance film about Margalit Oved Marshall. Her husband, film documentarian Robert Snyder,
cooperated with her in the making of an ethnographic film about the Philippine dance troupe Bayanihan. She was a key consultant
on "Dancing" for Thirteen WNET.
Snyder attended the School of American Ballet (1941-1947), received her BA in dance from Bennington College (1951), and earned
her MA in dance from UCLA (1967). The only living child of R. Buckminster Fuller, she was born Aug. 18, 1927 in Chicago, IL.
She was the founder and first president of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, presently located in Brooklyn NY.
This collection includes the research, personal and professional files of Allegra Fuller Snyder, professor emeritus and past
chair of the UCLA Dance Department and the World Arts and Cultures Department. It is evident in her files that AFS's professional
and personal endeavors are often indistinct.
The collection is arranged in four series: personal organizational files, UCLA administrative papers, performance programs,
and research materials and organizations files.
The personal organizational files are Snyder's files as she maintained them for her own use. They include obituaries, and
articles about and correspondence with friends and colleagues. The transcript for an oral history interview of Snyder is located
here.
UCLA administrative papers include Snyder's academic papers, university newsletters, and UCLA committee and faculty papers.
The early years of the Dance Department and development of the Ethnic Arts Program cum World Arts and Cultures (WAC) department
are addressed, here.
Performance programs is a collection of several decades of published ephemera of performances that Snyder attended.
Research materials and organizations files include information and correspondence about students, colleagues, research, and
her father, R. Buckminster Fuller. As a member of a large number of organizations, Snyder's products from her research (presentations,
lectures, articles, descriptions of films, photos, audio tapes) are included. There are substantial files that address the
years that Snyder was active with the Congress on Research in Dance and serving as a panelist for the dance division of the
National Endowment for the Arts and for the Humanities. Her research with the Yaqui Indians and dance preservation and education
through film are represented.
Snyder maintained her files alphabetically and by date, for the most part. There were many instances of overlapping and incongruous
filing styles (ex. recent to old, old to recent) that may have been due to changing office assistants. Sometimes the items
were just placed in a new folder while another existed for it, starting a new series. Discrete groupings of files were formed
as they were moved into storage.
Initialisms and Acronyms used in Snyder's Research
- AADC - Association of American Dance Companies
- AADE - Australian Association for Dance Education
- AAHPER - American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
- AAUW - American Association of University Women
- ADF - American Dance Festival
- ADG - American Dance Guild (see NDG)
- ADTA - American Dance Therapy Association
- AFS - Allegra Fuller Snyder
- AISC - American Indian Studies Center
- APASI - Asian Performing Arts Summer Institute
- APPEX - Asian Pacific Performance Exchange Program
- ARS - Artists Rights Society
- ASA - African Studies Association
- AWARE - Association for Women's Active Return to Education
- CAFAM - Craft and Folk Art Museum
- CCA - California Confederation of the Arts
- CCDC - City Contemporary Dance Company
- CCDR - Cross Cultural Dance Resources
- CDEA - California Dance Educators Association
- CDF - Colorado Dance Festival
- CID - Conseil International de la Danse (see also IDC)
- CMER - Center for Movement Education and Research
- CODA - Council of Dance Administrators
- CORD - Congress on Research in Dance (earlier known as Committee on Research in Dance)
- CSSSA - California State Summer School for the Arts
- CTA - California Teachers Association
- CUCC - Committee on Undergraduate Courses and Curricula
- DCA - Dance Critics Association
- DDBP - Dance Database Project
- DEF - Dance Ethnology Forum
- DESIN - Dance Ethnology Service Information Network
- DFA - Dance Films Association, Inc.
- DHC - Dance Heritage Coalition
- DNB - Dance Notation Bureau
- DRC - Dance Resource Center
- DSLA - Dance South LA Project
- EFLA - Educational Film Library Association, Inc.
- IAC - Institute of American Cultures
- ICTM - International Council for Traditional Music
- IDA - International Documentary Association
- IDC - International Dance Council (see also CID)
- IDII - Isadora Duncan International Institute
- IFMC - International Folk Music Council
- ISOMATA - Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts
- ISOP - International Studies and Overseas Programs UCLA
- ITI - International Theatre Institute (Unesco)
- JOHPER - Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
- LAADA - Los Angeles Area Dance Alliance
- LACAE - Legislative Action Coalition for Arts Education
- NARB - National Association for Regional Ballet
- NARF - Native American Rights Fund
- NASD - National Association of Schools of Dance
- NCA - National Council on the Arts
- NDG - National Dance Guild (see ADG)
- NEA - National Endowment for the Arts
- NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities
- NIPAD - National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance
- NRCD - National Resource Centre for Dance
- PAF - Performing Arts Friendship Mission of Japan
- PAW - Performing Arts Workshop
- SASHM - Society for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement
- SAVICOM - Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication
- SDHS - San Diego High School
- SDSU - San Diego State University
- SEM - Society for Ethnomusicology
- SGSR - Society for General Systems Research
- TAASP - The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play
- WAC - World Arts and Cultures program at UCLA
- WDA - World Dance Alliance
Arranged in the following series:
- Personal Organizational Files
- UCLA Administrative Papers
- Performance Programs
- Research Materials and Organizations Files
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women dancers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Snyder, Allegra Fuller --Archives.