Box 68

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Draft of an interview with thoughts later developed in Dance We Do

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A Photograph: Lovers in Motion script and letter to Sharon about restaging; physical therapy exercises

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Photocopy of From Okra to Greens/A Different Kinda Love Story and images of sample illustrations for possible picture book adaptation

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Subseries 1.12, Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter, 1993-2002, undated, includes drafts of the novel and scripts for the theatrical adaptation, including notes and edits. Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter, a novel by Shange originally published by St. Martin's Press in 1994 is a coming of age tale and was adapted for theatrical productions, including at Brown University’s Rites & Reason Theatre in 2000.

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Drafts of Some Sing, Some Cry with notes from editor Michael Denneny

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Characters named Milagros, Gabriel, Joy, Suzette, and Liz

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Contract for Some Sing, Some Cry Turkish edition sent to Shange by her agency (2010); contracts related to Lions Gate production of for colored girls film adaptation; African American Literary Journal Vol 7 (2004) including Ellington Was Not a Street article and poster, set of Materials from The Ensemble Theatre 2011

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 2.1, Business, 1984-2018, undated, contains professional correspondence between Shange and editors, agents, producers, as well as publicity materials, travel documents and itineraries, invitations, fundraising asks, membership materials, performance notes, recommendation letters, requests for Shange’s critique or blurbs for other works, royalty statements and payments, and contracts received or sent by Shange. Much of the correspondence relates to works by Shange and in some cases...

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2005 contract with Nzingha Stewart for film adaptation of for colored girls, advance for Dance We Do, three pages of untitled autobiographical writing about St. Louis and childhood, and bio of Dyane Harvey for Dance We Do

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Draft of Lavender Lizards and Lilac Landmines: Layla's Dream, personal artistic biography/application essay, poem 'for me on my lady's birthday' with note to mother

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Festival included Liliane, directed by Ozzie Jones

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 4, Press, Programs, and Ephemera, 1970-2019, undated, includes newspapers and magazine clippings with coverage and reviews of Shange’s and others’ works; playbills and programs; flyers and posters; press materials for works of Shange’s and works of others that she attended; recordings of television and radio media appearances; and ephemera such as travel itineraries, theater tickets, and book jackets. This series documents both Shange’s own creative output and frequent speaking...

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Celebrate!! Amiri Baraka program with poem potentially read during program (2015), The Worlds of Ntozake Shange and Digital Storytelling Barnard Archives program (2016), Davis & Elkins College Department of Theatre Ntozake Shange programming schedule, Black Masks vol. 22, no. 3 (2016), Barnard Magazines Spring 2016 and Spring 2018

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Photographs of Ntozake Shange, Savannah Shange

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Photographs of Savannah Shange at a field hockey game with other family members; other family photographs

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Dianne McIntyre, Ntozake Shange and Aku Kadogo pictured at Spelman College event

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Smoke Voices: Interviews with the Spirits in the Work of Arturo Lindsay poems, with letters from Shange to Arturo Lindsay and Mary Campbell, Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem

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i know why the sunflower bows choreopoem, Yolandi E. Cruz Guerrero