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Performing Communities
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Resource List
Recorded by Mark McKenna, January 2001
The items listed below are available for public access at the offices of the
Dell’Arte Company in Blue Lake, California.
- Documents that tell stories of the group's work and history, authored either
by the group about itself or by others about the group.
- Artistic statements.
- Company PR, one 20-minute video made in 1989, and a 12-page booklet on the
company’s work published in 1991 as a souvenir program. Advance press
information about every project.
- Company Web site, <www.dellarte.com>,
has biographies, much company information and a complete production history
since 1977.
- Biannual company newsletter published for 15 years (unknown number of extant
copies).
- Grant applications, program copy histories and other documents, not generally
available, but on site. Every project that received a grant exists in a draft
version somewhere, available only to researchers on site.
- Project descriptions.
- Workbooks.
- Evaluations and reviews.: 25 years worth of reviews, all available in reprint.
- Primary documents, such as interviews, tapes, diaries, letters, etc. A vast,
unfiled archive full of an unknown quantity of some of this kind of material
available on site.
- Scripts and other production documents (audio, video, scenarios, director
notebooks, dialogue fragments, stage manager notebooks, etc.). One script
was published in "West Coast Plays," Vol. 8. Some videos are available
for sale.
- Material or published documents that tell the stories of the group's organizing
methods and approaches. Articles published about the company/school available
in reprint.
- Training-program, internship and workshop documents: Brochures on fulltime
actor-training program, summer workshops, study-abroad program in Bali, summer
internships and others by arrangement during the regular year. Program descriptions
on Web site.
- Touring and residency documents from 25 years of residencies, performances,
workshops. Brochures on residency activities, booking materials.
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