PERFORMANCE

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In an effort to preserve and maintain its history, Yale University seeks to retain documentation concerning the performing arts at Yale. Specific topics of interest include:

• The existence of significant performances, concerts, and productions at Yale;
   
• The conceptualization, design, planning, and artistic direction of performances, concerts, and productions at Yale;
   
• Collaboration among students, faculty, and outside professionals in performances, concerts, and productions at Yale;
   
• Responses to and evaluations of Yale performances, concerts, and productions; and
   
• Creative innovations and the extended influence of performances, concerts, and productions at Yale.
   

Archival records (Permanent records should be transferred to the Archives.  Please arrange timing and frequency of records transfer with Archives staff.) Audio or visual recordings of performances, concerts, and productions at Yale   Clippings about performances, concerts, and productions at Yale   Final and definitive design and production specifications, including set, costume, and prop designs for performances, concerts, and productions at Yale   Licensing and copyright records, when Yale owns rights to a play or music   Meeting minutes, correspondence, and vision statements that document the conceptualization, design, and planning processes   Photographs and slides of performances, concerts, and productions at Yale   Press releases about performances, concerts, and productions at Yale   Programs, brochures, or posters from performances, concerts, and productions at Yale (2 copies)   Script or sheet music that documents how a performance, concert, or production was staged or interpreted at Yale   Subject or performance files of deans of the Yale School of Drama and the Yale School of Music, and the managing director of the Yale School of Drama

Office of record Staff throughout the School of Drama, the School of Music, the Yale Dramatic Association, the Institute for Sacred Music, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Yale's bands hold the record copies of documentation about performance at the university. In addition, student dramatic organizations may also hold record copies of documentation. Individual offices that are not responsible for the creation of such records, but that maintain duplicates of such works or related materials, should destroy these files after they are no longer needed.

• Subscription records
   
• Ticket sales records
   

• Drafts of scripts, scores, and design documents
   
• Mailing lists
   
• Production records
   
• Records of individual performances, including ticket stubs and seating charts