JN, AADE Jan 12, 1968 (2 shows) West Philly High School

JN, AHAADE Jan 20, 1968, 10:00 AM -noon
@ Nixon Theatre, 52 & Ramstead in "This is Africa"

JN, AHAADE Jan 20, 1968
@ North Branch YWCA of Phila International Festival
Grand Ballroom Sheraton
[orig program]

JN, AHAADE Jan 21, 1968, @ Blue Horizon Aud, 1314 Broad

JN, AHAADE Feb 2, 1968 @ State Dept Auditorium
African Press Attaches' Club [orig. program]

JN '68 file - AHAADE Feb 14 & 15 (no year) @ Nixon Theatre, 52 & Ramstead

JN, Phila Tribune 2/10/68 "Nixon Theater to observe Negro History Week with ... Dancing"

JN, AADE Feb 18 @ "12" Gents cabaret, Venango Ballroom
[Nite Scene 2/24/68 review "most fabulous"]

ER, AHAADE, Feb 21 (no year - from context c. 1968)
Schaefer Auditorium [Kutztown State?]
("Black Experience Weekend" w/ Eldon Jolly, Intruders)
[add'l ref: Temple University Music Festival in Ambler PA]

JN, AADE Feb 24, 1968 @ West Dapforth HS, Woodbury NJ

JN, AHAADE March 1, 1968 @ Imperial Ballroom, 217 So 60th
N.B.: Daniel Webster article stapled to back:
ARTHUR HALL'S AFRO-AMERICAN DANCE ENSEMBLE
(Inquirer Magazine, no further attributions) [ see text ]

JN, AHAADE March 12, 19 & 26, 1968
@ Christian St Branch YMCA "Afro-American History & Culture"

Arthur Hall MEMO
April 1968 schedule

April 1, Sulezbury Jr. High
April 2. Dobbins Vocational
April 5, Cheyney State College (day)
April 5, Max Roach, Town Hall (eve)
April 6, Commerce Dept, Wash DC
April 12, NY
April 13, Count Basie, Sheraton Hotel
April 14, Club Harlem
April 15, 23rd Federal
April 17, Dobbins
April 18, Overbrook High
April 19, Huey School
April 20, Blaintown [JN, Blair Academy program]
April 23, Mulenberg College
April 24, Bok
April 28, KFC Hall
April 30, Temple Univ

JN, AADE Apr 2, @ Auditorium [program Dobbins Vocational]



MLK, Jr. assassinated April 4
See description

JN Freedom Now Suite

ER, orig program, Club Three Guys

AH, AHAADE April 5, 1968 in Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Town Hall, Broad & Race w/ Abbey Lincoln [perhaps stills]

JN, AHAADE April 13, 1968 @ Grand Ballroom, Sheraton
w/ Count Basie & his orchestra

ER poster The Saidates, Spring Ball, April 13 (no year) Sheraton Hotel Ballroom
w/ Count Basie & "the Great Arthur Hall & his authentic Afro Dance Ensemble"

JN, AHAADE Apr 14, 1968 @ Club Harlem, Atlantic City
[Scoop 4/13/68 front page photo montage]
[Scoop USA 3/9/68 front page photo montage]
[Scoop USA 3/16/68 Iyone Nash on cover]
[Scoop USA 4/6/68 photo montage]
AH, ditto [Scoop USA 4/6/68 photo montage]
[ref to appearance on Steel Pier]

JN, AHAADE April 23, 1969 @ Muhlenberg College, Allentown
Festival of the Arts

JN, AADE Apr 24, 68 Dept of Commerce [Evening Star 4/25 Wash DC]



ER, An African Safari, AHAADE, May 5, 1968, Town Hall, Broad & Race
JN, [program]

JN, AHAADE May 7, 1968 @ Camden Convention Hall (NJ)
Fruit of Islam presents African Asian Unity Bazaar w/ Muhammed Ali

JN, AADE May 10, 68 @ MCI Williams School Wilmington Del

JN, AADE May 17, 68 @ Kentucky State College, Frankfort KY

JN, AADE May 19, 1968 University of Pittsburgh

JN, AADE May 21, 68 @ Samuel Powell & McMichael Elem Schools

JN, AADE June 1, 68 @ 517 W 3rd, Chester PA "Night with Calypso"

RFK assassinated

JN, AADE June 21, 68 @ Town Hall, Broad & Race [Zion Baptist Church]

JN, AADE June 23, 68 @ Howard HS Aud, Wilmington Del

JN, AADE June 30, 68 @ Town Hall "Congolese Independence Day"

JN 68 file, AADE w/Tiny Tim @ JFK Stadium July 4 (no year) [Schmidt's Beer]

JN, AADE on PBS, Jul 11, Aug 2, 68, produced by WLVT Harrisburg
[Fanga, Watusi, Stool, Odunde]

JN Phila Inquirer 7/11/68, AADE 1st of 10 Thurs night performances
@ centers & playgrounds July 11,18, 25, 29, Aug 1, 8, 12, 15, 22, 29



ER poster Arthur Hall Dancers, Anderson Recreation Center
17th & Fitzwater, August 1, 1968
Action Summer '68, Dept of Recreation

JN '71 file, AH Dancers at playgrounds throughout City (no year [move to 68 file])

Aug 8, Amos Playground
Aug 12, Morris Estate
Aug 15, Phila Gas Co Parking Park
Aug 22, McAlpin Playground
Aug 29, Kingsessing Rec Ctr
July 11 @ Mann Recreation Center, 5th & Allegheny
July 18 @ Connie Mac Rec Center, 22 & Huntingdon
July 25 @ Francisville Playground, Francis & Shirley
July 29 @ Seger Rec Ctr, 19 & Lombard
Aug 1 @ Anderson Rec Ctr, 17 & Fitzwater
Aug 8 @ Amos Playground, 16 & Berks
Aug 12 @ Morris Estate, 1600 Chelten
Aug 15 @ Phila Gas Co Parking Park, 9 & Montgomery
Aug 22 @ McAlpin Playground, 36 & Aspen
Aug 29 @ Kingsessing Rec Ctr, 51 & Chester

JN, AADE July 21, 68 @ Fellowship Farm, Pottstown PA

JN 68 file, AH & Chief Bey Egbe Ife Aug 11 (no year)
@ Club Ruby, St. Albans

JN, AADE Aug 22, 68 @ St Joseph's College

JN, AADE Aug 24, 68 @ Olympia Aud, So Broad "Club Regina's Cabaret"



JN, AADE Aug 25, 68 @ Pan-African Students Union, Intn'l House
ER poster, Pan-African Students Union ~ African Dancing Show
with Arthur Hall African Troupe
@ International House 15 & Cherry, Aug 25 (no year)

ER, Jacob's Pillow, AADE, Aug 29 - 31, 1968 (Lee, Mass.)
AH, Jacobs Pillow archive (2 seasons, 68, 69, ref: "Dance World" Dance Magazine)
Norton Owen [ref: Jerry Meyers]

JN, AADE Sept 7, 68 @ Bright Hope Baptist Youth Ctr
Testimonial for Dr Nathaniel Sandy Duff
[orig program]

JN AADE Sept 13 & 14 @ Showboat Jazz Theater w/ Dick Gregory
AH
~ ref to Wash DC perf w/Dick Gregory for President campaign

JN, AADE Sept 18 on Channel 12 "Wednesday at Ten"
[Carnival photo, AH w/ Karen Steptoe Warrington]

JN, AHAADE Sept 21, 1968 @ First Unitarian Church of Phila
2125 Chestnut [Delaware Valley Black Unitarian Universalist Caucus]

JN, AH consultant for WCAU series on Negro History, "Tell It Like It Is"
(Janet Rubner, prod, Jerry Chamberlain dir, Inez Gottlieb, ex prod
in cooperation w/ Free Library) w/AADE
also "Black Book" on WCAU



JN, program - Black Unitarian-Universalist Caucus
ER, AHAADE, Delaware Valley BUUC, Sept 28, 1968
Unitarian Society of Germantown, 6511 Lincoln Dr.

JN, AADE Oct 2 (no year) @ Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall "Black Day"
[Univ of Pittsburgh?]
[JN ref to Oct 2 perf @ Univ of Pittsburgh]


African Heritage (1968)


University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Afro American Dance Ensemble drummers at head title (00:43); at 11:15 dance Bambara
Chiwara masks; at 14:40 mask dance; at 21:23 drum and dance for end titles with
Evangeline Brown, Carol Butcher Schley, Karen Steptoe Warrington, et al.


JN, AADE Oct 11, 68 @ Kaleidoscope concert hall, Manayunk
[Phila Inquirer 10/12/68 "Three Afro Dancers forced to cover up"]

JN, AADE Oct 18, 68 @ Drexel Institute auditorium

JN, AADE Oct 19, 68
@ Bux-Mont Unitarian Fellowship Meetinghouse, Neshaminy "African Sketches"

AH, AHAADE, Oct 23, 1968, Sayre Jr. High School, 58th & Walnut
JN, [orig program]

JN, [Jet 10/31/68 "Cops intimidate Bare Breasted Dancers" @ Kaleidoscope]

JN, AHAADE Nov 9, 1968 @ Kaleidoscope, Manayunk PA

JN, AADE Nov 23, 68 @ Drexel Institutes Auditorium
32 & Chestnut Pan African Students Union

JN. AH Dancers Nov 24,68 @ Hotel Philadelphia (Athletic)
Broad & Vine, "Club 40, 2nd annual Mod-Afro Affair"

JN, AADE Dec 1, 68 @ Buena Vista Country Club, Buena NJ
"African Genesis '68" (scholarship aid committee of Vineland NJ)

JN, AADE on Ch 12 "Wed @ 10" Dec 11 & 18, 2 part "Africa's Children"

JN, AADE Dec 13, 68 @ Unitarian Church of So NJ, Cherry Hill

JN 68 file, AADE Dec 21 @ Town Hall, Brd & Race (no year, no other attributions)

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