KEY CONTACT PERSON(S)/EXECUTOR OF ESTATE:
Survived by his sister, Kelly Fowler of Strong City, Kansas; parents, David C. & Virginia L. Tippet of Parsons; four brothers, Casey of Parsons, David of Houston, Tracy of New York City, and Jon of Dallas; and five sisters, Christine Cooper of Clarksville, Texas, Michelle St. Clair of Parsons, Patti Nutt of Parsons, Janie of Lawrence, Kansas, and Marce Modica of Overland Park, Kansas.

David C. Tippet, brother and photographer
3224 Main St.
Parson KS 67357
620-421-3256
davidtippet@yahoo.com

Casey Tippet, brother
23049 Lyon Rd.
Parsons, KS 67357
620-421-4394
tippets@terraworld.net

HUMAN REPOSITORIES OF THE WORK
(name and contact info, relationship to the artist and the work, assessment):
Dancers of American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Kansas City Ballet.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
In 2000 the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS tested motion capture technology as a dance preservation tool with Tippet's Some Assembly Required. The ballet, which received its world premiere by the American Ballet Theatre in 1989 at the Kennedy Center, was reconstructed by its original dancers, John Gardner and Amanda McKerrow, in a motion capture studio in New York. Riverbed Media developed software that provided an interactive three-dimensional view of the motion-captured dance. Plans are underway to host the viewer for Some Assembly Required on the Estate Project Web site; those interested in motion capture technology should contact the Estate Project for a demonstration video.

The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library holds the following videotapes:

Ballet (1995)—documentary videotape without narration on the American Ballet Theatre, filmed over a period of nine weeks in 1992 in New York City; directed, produced and edited by Frederick Wiseman; includes choreographic excerpts from Clark Tippet's Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1; two VHS videocassettes (172 min.); call number MGZIA 4-2935.

Creative Process: Personal and Creative Growth (1988)—compilation video produced as part of the Eye on Dance series and telecast 26 May; includes discussion by Clark Tippet and Kevin McKenzie and studio rehearsal of Tippet's S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.; one 3/4 in. videocassette (28 min.); call number MGZIC 9-3047.

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):
These materials would be in the possession of the companies that performed Tippet's ballets.

ORAL HISTORY:
The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library contains the following oral history:

Tippet, Clark, interviewee. "Interview with Clark Tippet." (1991)—transcript of interview by Lesley Farlow recorded 15 April in New York City; 55 leaves 28 cm; call number MGZMT 3-1492.

PERSONAL PAPERS
(location of newspaper clippings, printed programs, press releases, notes, files, diaries; assessment):
The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library maintains a clippings file for "Tippet, Clark," call number MGZR.

IMMEDIATE NEEDS
(archival assistance? storage? other?):
Search for executor. Messages left at the homes of family members were not returned.

LIST OR OVERVIEW OF WORKS
(title, premiere date, music, production notes, performers):
This is an incomplete list, compiled from reviews and the New York Public Library catalog:

Enough Said (1986)—American Ballet Theatre

Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 (1987)—American Ballet Theatre

S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. (The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) (1988)—American Ballet Theatre

Some Assembly Required (1989)—American Ballet Theatre; dancers John Gardner and Amanda McKerrow

Rigaudon (1989)—American Ballet Theatre; dancers Carld Jonassaint, Julie Kent, Jeremy Collins, Amy Rose, Dana Stackpole, and Ross Yearsley.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Dance Magazine. 1992. "Obituaries: Clark Tippet" (April): 37.
• Dance/USA. 1992. "Obituaries: Clark Tippet" (Winter): 25.
• Dunning, Jennifer. 1992. "Clark Tippet, Choreographer, 37; Ballet Theater Principal Dancer." New York Times (30 January).
• Flatow, Sheryl. 1989. "Dance; When a Dancer Turns Choreographer." New York Times (14 May).
• Kisselgoff, Anna. 1989. "Review/Ballet; Clark Tippet's 'Rigaudon,' A Gloss on the Baroque Era." New York Times (31 May).
• __________. 1989. "Review/Dance; Yound, in Love and in Combat." New York Times (18 May).