The Arthur Hall Collection
Ile Ife Films, Inc.

Founded by
Arthur Hall
Dancer - Choreographer - Master Teacher - Humanitarian - Citizen of the World
b. April 18, 1934, Memphis, Tennessee, d. July 6, 2000, Camden, Maine
In Memoriam Arthur Hall

We remain convinced of the value of Arthur's life and work
and its potential, through the Arthur Hall Collection,
to continue its teaching and impact.

Honor Rolls of Donors and Contributors

The Arthur Hall Collection Digital Archive Project
Project Narrative PDF

Recent additions to the Arthur Hall Collection

May 2012
Too Happy or something wrong with their knees
(Ile Ife Films / Arthur Hall Collection, 2012, 10:55)

April 2012
Fat Tuesday and all that jazz!
Digitally remastered version prepared for DVD edition
(Preservation Hall / Arthur Hall Collection, 2012, 1:22:58)
Fat Tuesday 35 years on!
A brief history of Fat Tuesday and individual credits for dancers and musicians.
(Preservation Hall / Arthur Hall Collection, 2012, 8:55)

March 2012
Nana at Railroad Square Cinema
(Ile Ife Films / Arthur Hall Collection, 2012, 5:54)

February 2012
Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance
A gift of the author, Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Inscribed to the Arthur Hall Collection
In memory and celebration of Arthur Hall
- a life lived in and for dance -
(2012, Palgrave Macmillan)

January 2012
Four photographs(1967)donated by Steve Linn from
Repertoire Workshop: MOJUBA

December 2011
Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance
Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia 1948-1971
By Melanye White Dixon (2011, Edwin Mellon Press)
See Marion Cuyjet

November 2011
Videotape donated by C. Abbott Meader
Maine Public Broadcasting's Northern Lights program, ca. 1997
Arthur Hall conducting rehearsals and narrating.

October 2011
Original transcripts and CD copy of audio recordings
1985 interviews of Arthur Hall by Brenba Dixon Gottschild

October 2011
Original ephemera from Ile Ife Center, ca. 1982-1984
from the Rev. Margo Blake

June 2011
Moving images and photographs
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Historical Marker honoring Arthur Hall
Dedication and Unveiling

Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble perform for Arthur Hall Alumni
Jessica Lautin photograph, June 11, 2011

Reception honoring Arthur Hall
Mayor's Conversation Room
City Hall of Philadelphia
Friday, June 10, 2011

April 2011
16mm print of ILE IFE: House of Love
(1973, color and black and white, 25 minutes)
Loaned to the collection by filmmaker Raymond Hartung
Excerpt available on YouTube
Digital copy available on DVD

New Video
Arthur Lee Hall: Historical Marker
(2011, 9:00 minutes)

Other Videos Available Online
Renaissance on Sacred Ground (2011, 15:00 minutes)
The Unvictorious One (1957, silent 9:09 minutes)

Arthur Hall conducts a children's class - Kenneth Abendschein photograph, ca. 1980

DVD copies of AHC materials

Mission Statement | 2011 Annual Report | Past Reports - To Donate

Elizabeth Roberts opens performance of Obatala at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bruce Williams photograph,1982

The Arts belong to all people,
and all people surrender to the Arts at some point.
I am happy now after forty years of being a Symbol
of Black Culture to expand my Vision to encompass
all the World's Cultures by founding
the International Dance Center ...

The Support of the Community Uplifts my Spirit.
The Center will be a place for the Creative Process,
a place for International Music & Dance to Come Together,
perhaps to Create what does not yet exist.

Yours in the Cause of Humanity,
Arthur Hall [1995]