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Black Arts Company Records

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
AC459
Repository:
Princeton University Library: University Archives
Extent:
  • 1 box
  • 1 websites
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Black Arts Company, Folder Name, Box Number, Princeton University Archives, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1996-1999 (inclusive)
Creator:
Princeton University. Black Arts Company. and Princeton University. Black Arts Company (BAC) Dance.
Form:
Videotapes., Videocassettes., and Audiovisual materials
Abstract:
The Black Arts Company was founded at Princeton in 1990 as a hip-hop dance company, with a mission to generate dialogue about the African diaspora through dance. The company also staged other types of performances, including drama and comedy, before it formally split into two separate organizations, BAC: Dance and BAC| Drama, in the mid 2000s. The dance company continues to perform and explore new styles of hip-hop. This collection includes video cassette recordings of Fall and Spring shows from 1996-1999.

Princeton University. Black Arts Company.

The Black Arts Company was established at Princeton in 1990 as a hip-hop company with a mission to build awareness of the African diaspora through dance, although it also included other types of performance. The dance company continues to perform and explore new styles of hip-hop, featuring two showcases in fall and spring of each year. In 1995, an extension of the Black Arts Company, Black Arts Company

This collection contains three VHS recordings of BAC performances from 1996-1999. They include dance, comedy, and drama performances, as well as a vocal guest performance by Princeton all-women acapella group Culturally Yours. It also contains the public website of the company.

Performance videos are arranged chronologically.

Gift of Nydia Mancini '99. Accession number AR.2016.087

This collection was processed by Annalise Berdini in 2018. Finding aid written by Annalise Berdini in 2018. Finding aid updated by Valencia L. Johnson in 2019.

No material has been separated from this collection.

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Publisher
University Archives
Finding Aid Date
2018
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Collection Inventory

BAC Performance Videos, 1996-1999. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Three recordings of BAC performances from 1996-1999. They include dance, comedy, and drama performances, as well as a vocal guest performance by Princeton all-women acapella group Culturally Yours.

Arrangement

Performance videos are arranged chronologically.

Physical Description

1 box

Princeton University. Black Arts Company (BAC) Dance.. Black Arts Company (BAC) Dance Public Website, 2018. 1 website.
Physical Description

1 website

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