Through commissions on the West Coast and national touring under the auspices of LOCUS Solo Dance, Friedman has also maintained a prolific choreographic identity in addition to and complementary of his work with LEGACY. His choreographic work has treated the themes of male-male homosociality and erotic love, muscle memory as a means to understand loss, and overt references to HIV/AIDS, at times through innovative cross-disciplinary approaches that incorporate spoken text, video, live music, and original sound scores. He identifies eight works, listed below, that deal with HIV/AIDS. Friedman completed the Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory at the University of California, Riverside, in 2003 as a Jacob K. Javits United States Department of Education Fellow, and also, in 2003, joined the faculty of the Rutgers University Dance Department at the Mason Gross School for the Arts. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts grants to support LEGACY's work, the 2003 James V. Mink Award for Service to Oral History (Southwest Oral History Association), the 1995 San Francisco Bay Area Isadora Duncan Award for Service to Bay Area Dance Community, and a 1990 California Arts Council Choreographer's Fellowship.

KEY CONTACT PERSON(S)/EXECUTOR OF ESTATE:
Jeff Friedman

Home:
424 Cedar Ave.
Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-846-4454

Work:
85 George Street,
Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-8497, ext. 4
732-932 2414 fax
jfleg@prodigy.net

HUMAN REPOSITORIES OF THE WORK
(name and contact info, relationship to the artist and the work, assessment):
Jeff Friedman (see above)

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
Friedman holds video documentation of his choreographic work. Other tapes are held at SFPALM.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
Friedman holds photographic documentation and publicity photographs in his files. Other photos are held at SFPALM.

MOVEMENT NOTATION
(location, type [including notes taken by dancers], assessment):
None.

PRODUCTION MATERIALS
(scores, sound recordings, set/costume designs):
Friedman holds costumes and original sound recordings.

ORAL HISTORY:
None.

PERSONAL PAPERS
(location of newspaper clippings, printed programs, press releases, notes, files, diaries; assessment):
The San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum holds clippings, programs, photos, videos, press releases, dance-related financial records, and notes in Friedman's personal files up to approximately 1997. Friedman holds additional materials in his personal collection.

IMMEDIATE NEEDS
(archival assistance? storage? other?):
Additional donations to SFPALM. Support for cataloging of SFPALM collection materials. Support for preservation of videotapes and costumes.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
Friedman's reconstruction of Joah Lowe's Bowling Lesson #1 was performed in 1990 at Footwork Studio Theater in San Francisco (no longer operating). Video documentation is held in Friedman's personal collection.

Friedman identifies the following six conference papers as relevant to his work with LEGACY:

"Dance Oral History." 1995. Presented at the National Oral History Association meeting, Albuqurque, N.Mex.

"Muscle Memory: Oral History and Performance." 1997. Presented at the AAPHERD national meeting, Portland, Ore.

"The Eros of Oral History." 1998. Plenary session paper presented at the 18th Southwest Oral History Association meeting, Albuquerque, N.Mex.

"LEGACY: A Decade Retrospective." 1998. Presented at the After the First Decade: Dance Preservation Conference, Whitney Museum, New York City, N.Y.

"LEGACY Oral History Project: Strategies for Dance Documentation." 2001. Presented at the Theater Library Association, American Library Association meeting, San Francisco, Calif.

"Embodied Oral History: Transmitting LEGACY from Generation to Generation." 2002. Presented at the CORD/National Dance Education Organization annual meeting, Providence, R.I.

Friedman is also a nationally-recognized consultant who designs training materials for individuals and institutions who want to create new projects based on LEGACY's model. Since 1990, he has provided services to targeted dance communities identified by the Mellon Foundation's "Images of American Dance," a survey of the dance field that assessed needs for documentation and preservation services. Selected consulting clients have included VOICES of AMERICAN PERFORMANCE: Touring and Presenting Oral History Project; the Philadelphia Dance Archive, Temple University, Philadelphia Pa.; Bearing Witness, AIDS Service Organization, Denver Colo.; Instituto de Documentaçion de Danza, Carácas VZ; Boston Dance Alliance Service Organization and Boston Ballet, Mass.; the Newberry Library, Chicago Dance Coalition and Chicago Art Institute, Ill.; Los Angeles Dance Resource Center and Dance Video Center, Calif.; and the Minneapolis Dance Alliance Service Organization, Minneapoli, Minn. In 2002 he was movement consultant for two separate productions of The Laramie Project, based on oral histories concerning the death of Matthew Shepard, at the University of California, Riverside, and at San Francisco State University.

Since 1996 Friedman has also been the director and instructor for LEGACY's annual Summer Training Workshop. Responsibilities include curriculum development and implementation of a twenty-two hour training program in oral history project design, interview methods, legal and ethical issues, transcription, editing, completing the research document and supervision of year-long practicum projects. Friedman has also been on the faculty of the Regional Oral History Office (Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley) Advanced Oral History Institute since its inception in 2002. Friedman was also an invited participant at the National Dance Heritage Leadership Forum, sponsored by the Dance Heritage Coalition, Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton Va., in April 2000.

OVERVIEW OF WORKS RELATED TO HIV/AIDS
(title, premiere date, music, production notes, performers):

Threshold (1988)—solo dance/video evening length event created in collaboration with videographer Mitchell Loch, sound score by Scott Halpin, Footwork Studio, San Francisco

Gyre (1989)—sound score by Appel Intersetellaire, Oliver Messaien composer, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside Calif.

Missing Person (1990)—duet with text created in collaboration with poet Steve Benson; Footwork Studio, San Francisco

Journeyman (1991)—choreographed, written, and performed by Friedman, Bay Area Dance Series at Laney Theater, Oakland, Calif.

The Navigators (1992)—sound score: Patrick Makuakane, Bay Area Fund for Dance, San Francisco

Lonely Hunters (1993)—male quartet with live text, Everett Person Theater, Sonoma State University, Calif.

Muscle Memory (1994)—choreographed, written, and performed by Friedman; additional text excerpted from Frank Everett, 1964-1992 and Eve Gentry: A Kaleidoscopic History, LEGACY Oral History Project, SFPALM; Bay Area Dance Series, Laney College Theater, Oakland, Calif.

A Left-Handed Complement (1995)—co-choreographed with Julie Kanter, sound design by Sky Evergreen (a.k.a. Bob Bauer, former partner who died of AIDS-related conditions, June 17, 1997); New Performance Gallery Theater, San Francisco

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Belmar, Sima. 2003. "For the Record: The LEGACY Oral History Project Gets it in Writing." San Francisco Bay Guardian (30 April).
• Dunning, Jennifer. 1990. "Preserving Artistic Vision Struck Down by AIDS." New York Times (29 October).
• Eckert, Ginger. 2001. "Overhearing History: The Legacy Oral History Project." Callboard (September).
• Felciano, Rita. 1997. "Tales on Tape: LEGACY the Dance World's Oral History Project, Records Memories to Keep the Past Alive." San Francisco Bay Guardian (13 August).
• Friedman, Jeff. 2002. "Performing Embodied Memory." In Sounds and Gestures of Recollection: Art and the Performance of Memory, edited by Richard C·ndida Smith, 156-180. London/New York: Routledge.
• __________. 1996. "Endangered Species: Oral History and Dance." Historia, Antropologia y Fuentes Orales. Barcelona University, Spain (15): 193-200.
• Gere, David. 1991. "Paying Homage in a Holy Light: Independent Choreographers Unveil Inspirational Works." Oakland Tribune (4 March).
• Strini, Tom. 1995. "Dance Me a Story." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (20 October).