Performing Arts Events

Collection — Box: 4(oversizetub)

Identifier: 04-09-001

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection documents performances produced by the Performing Arts Division of Wilkes University, from 1933 to the present. It consists primarily of programs and photographs.

Dates

Created: 1940-2015
Other: Date acquired: 12/01/2012

Creator

Performing Arts Department (Organization)

Conditions Governing Use

All programs are copyrighted by Wilkes University. Some photographs copyrighted by Wilkes University, some copyrighted by Ace Hoffman studios.

Biographical or Historical Information

The Performing Arts began at BUJC when Paul Gies was hired as Music faculty in 1933, and in 1934 instructors in Violin and Piano were added. A dramatics club with 65 members is described in the 1933-34 Bulletin. In 1938 a theater was constructed in Chase Annex, allowing for more elaborate productions, and by 1940 Norma Constance Sanguillano was a faculty member in Speech and Dramatics. Music was among the first degrees offered when Wilkes College became an independent institution in 1947, and the Theater Major was added in 1981. Dance classes have been offered since 1984. The various performing arts departments have been reorganized a number of times. The current form is a division of Performing Arts offering a number of degrees in Music, Theater, and Dance.

Note written by Elizabeth Sullivan

Extent

0.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The Division of Performing Arts initially collected and arranged this archives and transferred it to the University Archives at some point in the 1990's or 2000's. The documents were located in the Harold Cox Archives Room on the third floor of the university archives in December 2012 when arrangement and description of the university archives collections began.