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Iris Garland fonds
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Iris Garland fonds

  • F-197
  • Fonds
  • [194-?] - 2003

Fonds consists of records relating to the academic and professional life of Iris Garland, and in part to her personal life. Activities, topics, and events documented include Garland’s establishment of SFU’s dance program; course development and instruction, including early telelearning education; independent and university choreography work; university and dance community service; presentations and writing; education and employment; and some of her early life. Records include notes, course syllabi, copies of clippings and reviews, performance programmes, reports, proposals, publications, correspondence, photographic materials, and sound and moving image recordings.

Fonds is arranged into 10 series:

  1. Personal records
  2. Teaching records
  3. SFU dance program history and development
  4. SFU dance workshops and productions
  5. Choreography records
  6. Correspondence
  7. Writing
  8. Conference and professional affiliation records
  9. Grant files
  10. Special media

Garland, Iris

Grant files

Series consists of records documenting Iris Garland’s successful and unsuccessful federal grant applications for research or travel, and in particular for her extensive study of Spanish dancer Tórtola Valencia. Records include completed applications, correspondence, and supporting documents.

Moving images

Sub-series consists of moving image recordings featuring performances or rehearsals of dance productions choreographed by Iris Garland for various SFU faculty and student dance shows, as well as external dance concerts and festivals. Sub-series also includes a documentary featuring an intensive workshop Garland presented on Life Forms software to a group of professional choreographers in Sydney, Australia, in 1998. Records include moving images in a variety of formats, as well as notes, media releases, and performance programmes included in some cassette cases.

"Labyrinth" - master

Item is a recording of "Labyrinth," choreographed by Iris Garland to the music of R. Murray Schafer's "The Crown of Ariadne." "Labyrinth" was created by Garland as the culmination of a year's research in Laban Movement Analysis, which was aided by the Canada Council through a Choreographers Grant awarded to Garland in 1982.

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