IDENTIFICATION AND BIO:
A staff instructor at Philadelphia's Jazz Dance Center, Stephan A. Love founded the Next Generation Dance Theater for urban youths in 1985. His dancers, age 10 to 17, performed at community functions and charity benefits, as well as at the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem. Love died of AIDS-related causes.
KEY CONTACT PERSON(S)/EXECUTOR OF ESTATE:
According to a New York Times obituary (see below), Love was survived by his companion, Terrence Connell; his mother and stepfather, Elizabeth and Charles Dickerson; his father, Arthur Love; two sisters, Dawn Love and Joyce Love-Wilcox; and two brothers, Frederick Purnell and Kenneth Love. None of these survivors were found in searches of the internet.
HUMAN REPOSITORIES OF THE WORK
(name and contact info, relationship to the artist and the work, assessment):
None identified.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
None identified.
PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
None identified.
MOVEMENT NOTATION
(location, type [including notes taken by dancers], assessment):
None identified.
PRODUCTION MATERIALS
(scores, sound recordings, set/costume designs):
None identified.
ORAL HISTORY:
None identified.
PERSONAL PAPERS
(location of newspaper clippings, printed programs, press releases, notes, files, diaries; assessment):
None identified.
IMMEDIATE NEEDS
(archival assistance? storage? other?):
Search for executor.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
There are no entries for Stephan A. Love in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library, and no telephone listings for the Philadelphia Jazz Dance Center.
LIST OR OVERVIEW OF WORKS
(title, premiere date, music, production notes, performers):
Not available.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Dance Magazine. 1993. "Obituaries: Stephan A. Love" (May): 86.
- New York Times. 1993. "Stephan A. Love, Dance Troupe Founder, 38" (21 January): D25.
