Research Catalog

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Description

1. .2 lin. ft.

Summary

1. Correspondence mainly addressed to Dafora from friends, business associates, and promotional agents; some express his continued association with Sierra Leone. Also, personal papers, autobiographical sketch written in 1960, agreements, contracts, drafts of plays and performances, sheet music, programs, announcements with promotional releases, and news clippings relating to Dafora's career and to African dance forms he used in his performances and to African culture in general. Correspondents include Orson Welles, discussing a plan to film Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS.

Subject

1. Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
2. Dance > Africa
3. Dance > United States
4. Dancers
5. Dafora, Asadata,d1890-1965
6. American drama > African American authors
7. African Americans in the performing arts
8. Africa > Social life and customs
9. Sheet music
10. African American dancers
11. Choreographers
12. Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
13. Sierra Leone > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

1. Sheet music.

Call number

1. Sc MG 48

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
2. Costume transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.

Source (note)

1. Allen, Benjamin Richardson

Biography (note)

1. Dancer, choreographer, dance-dramatist. Born John Warner Dafora Horton in Sierra Leone, Dafora was the first dancer to bring African dance forms to American audiences.

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed
2. Processed
3. Cataloging updated

Author

1. Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965.

Title

1. Asadata Dafora papers, 1933-1963.

Biography

1. Dancer, choreographer, dance-dramatist. Born John Warner Dafora Horton in Sierra Leone, Dafora was the first dancer to bring African dance forms to American audiences.

Finding aids

1. Finding aid in repository.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Dancers.
2. Choreographers.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 48