Research Catalog

Title

Glory Van Scott collection, 1974-2000.

Author

Van Scott, Glory.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 folder.

Summary

The Glory Van Scott collection is comprised primarily of programs of performances Van Scott either produced, directed or wrote, including those dedicated to Katherine Dunham, that were performed at various venues in New York City. There are also a few reviews and other news clippings.

Subjects

• Dunham, Katherine
• Dancers > United States
• African American actresses > New York (State) > New York
• Programs
• African American women artists > New York (State) > New York
• Dance > Reviews
• African Americans in the performing arts > New York (State) > New York
• African American women in the professions > New York (State) > New York
• African American entertainers > New York (State) > New York
• African American dancers > New York (State) > New York
• Black author
• Van Scott, Glory

Genre/Form

Programs.

Source (note)

• Mary Walker

Biography (note)

• Glory Van Scott is an actress, dancer, singer, published playwright and author. A graduate of Goddard College, Vermont (B.A., M.A.), she was awarded a Ph. D. in education and theater arts from the Antioch Union Graduate School, Ohio. She is a former principal dancer with Katherine Dunham, Agnes DeMille and Talley Beatty companies and has performed in the United States and internationally, appearing in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and on television.
• Van Scott has served as director, producer, choreographer, and wrote and composed eight musicals including "Miss Truth" as well as children's theatrical productions and children's books. Her works have been produced in New York and Washington. Additionally, she was executive coordinator for Channel Thirteen's "Dance in America" series program on Katherine Dunham, and produced "An Evening of Spirituals" at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall for six years beginning in 1994. From 1974-1984 Van Scott was a professor of theater at Bucknell University's Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. In 1984 she founded the Dr. Glory's Children's Theatre at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, which is an international, inter-racial, intercultural, multi-ethnic non-profit children's theater.

Call Number

Sc MG 707

OCLC

122517204

Author

Van Scott, Glory.

Title

Glory Van Scott collection, 1974-2000.

Biography

Glory Van Scott is an actress, dancer, singer, published playwright and author. A graduate of Goddard College, Vermont (B.A., M.A.), she was awarded a Ph. D. in education and theater arts from the Antioch Union Graduate School, Ohio. She is a former principal dancer with Katherine Dunham, Agnes DeMille and Talley Beatty companies and has performed in the United States and internationally, appearing in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and on television.

Van Scott has served as director, producer, choreographer, and wrote and composed eight musicals including "Miss Truth" as well as children's theatrical productions and children's books. Her works have been produced in New York and Washington. Additionally, she was executive coordinator for Channel Thirteen's "Dance in America" series program on Katherine Dunham, and produced "An Evening of Spirituals" at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall for six years beginning in 1994. From 1974-1984 Van Scott was a professor of theater at Bucknell University's Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. In 1984 she founded the Dr. Glory's Children's Theatre at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, which is an international, inter-racial, intercultural, multi-ethnic non-profit children's theater.

Source

Mary Walker Gift 2001 SCM01-11.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 707