Subordinate Centers of the Faculty of the Arts
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The Israeli Documentation Center for The Performing Arts |
The Israeli Documentation Center for The Performing Arts was founded in 1970, and was then named - The Israeli Theater Archives. It was founded in association wiht The Theater Arts Department of The Faculty of The Humanities at The Tel-Aviv University and with the aid of a grant from The Tel- Aviv Foundation for Literature and The Arts.
The Theatre Arts Department and The Israeli Theater Archives were made, in 1972 part of the new founded Faculty of The Arts. In 1982, Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin granted The Israeli Theatre Archives the title of Public Archives. As new fields of documentation were added to the archives’ framework, the name of the archives changed, in 1986 to - The Israeli Documentaion Center for The Performing Arts (IDCPA). In 1988, The IDCPA and its founder-director were awarded with The Moshe Halevi Performing Arts Prize by the The Tel-Aviv Municipality. for its “Outstanding contribution to Theater life in Israel”.
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The function of The IDCPA is to preserve performing arts documentation, to sort, file and catalogue it and make it available for reference and research purposes. The collection consists of archival-material concerning Israeli and Jewish theater, as well as opera, dance, music, pantomime, circus and other kinds of entertainment. The collection consists of 18 complete archives of Israeli theaters and archives of other performing arts institutions, and of 80 private archives that were deposited at The IDCPA by its owners. The holdings consist of thousands of files containing - plays, photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, posters, correspondence, tickets, etc. |
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| Hannah Rubinov 1922 Habimah production of the Dybbuk in Moscow |
The IDCPA library consists of thousands of theater books, plays, periodicals, short plays, monologues, booklets, etc. The IDCPA audio-visual collection consists of hundreds of taps, records, slides and a few films. The IDCPA stage-design collection consists of hundreds of sketches for costume and scenery as well as cartoons and portraits. A few exhibitory items were also deposited at The IDCPA - maquets, marionettes, pieces of furniture and of scenery.
The IDCPA is the largest of its kind in Israel. It offers reference service to art and cultural institutions as well as to individual users of various fields of interests.
The IDCPA is located in hall no. 7 at the Sourasky Central Library of Tel-Aviv University and is open five days a week:
No loans. Xerox service is available. With the aid of the IDCPA catalogue one may detect any sujbect with minutes. Non-students are charged an entrance fee.
Shimon Lev-Ari
Director
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