The Center for Ballet and the Arts Graduate Student Research Group is excited to welcome you to an onsite exploration of the archives at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. This event will take place on Friday October 23 at 1:00pm at the Library for the Performing Arts (Lincoln Center). A small lunch will be provided.
Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students from all disciplines, this event will introduce an overview of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and the Library for the Performing Arts (LPA), including hands-on interaction with primary source archival collections. Led by librarian A.M. LaVey and Arnhold Dance Education Coordinator Paris NGai Gray, the event will be shaped by the research/interest topics of the attendees and current CBA fellows.
Registration
We recommend that those interested in attending review the library’s extensive collections and RSVP with their research interests by Friday, October 9 at 12pm. Space will be limited to 10 attendees with a waitlist. General RSVP’s will be accepted until October 19.
Librarian Biographies
A.M. LaVey is a librarian at the New York Public Library. As an archival scholar-practitioner and doctoral researcher working across cultural memory, exhibition studies, information science, and public scholarship, LaVey’s research explores exhibition studies, semiotics, visual culture, and cultural memory through materials that often sit at the edge of traditional bibliographic description: dance documentation, philately, textiles, ephemera, artists’ books, and other forms of visual and material culture.
Paris NGai Gray is the current Arnhold Dance Education Coordinator within the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, supporting curriculum development, professional learning, and archival engagement across classrooms and institutions. They are a transdisciplinary artist, curator, choreographer, researcher, educator, and dancer from South Central Los Angeles, California. Their creative practice develops movement as a site of radical inquiry—pushing the expectations of performance and choreographic composition through immersive collaboration across dance, performance art, and sound.
