The Israeli Documentation Center for The Performing Arts was founded in 1970, and was then named - The Israeli Theater Archives. It was founded in association with The Theater Arts Department of The Faculty of The Humanities at Tel-Aviv University and with the aid of a grant from The Tel- Aviv Foundation for Literature and The Arts.
The Theatre Arts Department and The Israeli Theater Archives were made, in 1972 part of the new founded Faculty of The Arts. In 1982, Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin granted The Israeli Theatre Archives the title of Public Archives. As new fields of documentation were added to the archives framework, the name of the archives changed, in 1986 to - The Israeli Documentation Center for The Performing Arts (IDCPA). In 1988, The Tel-Aviv Municipality awarded The IDCPA and its founder-director with The Moshe Halevi Performing Arts Prize. For its Outstanding contribution to Theater life in Israel.
The function of The IDCPA is to preserve performing arts documentation, to sort, file and catalogue it and make it available for reference and research purposes. The collection consists of archival-material concerning Israeli and Jewish theater, as well as opera, dance, music, pantomime, circus and other kinds of entertainment. The collection consists of 22 complete archives of Israeli theaters and archives of other performing arts institutions, and of 100 private archives that were deposited at The IDCPA by its owners. The holdings consist of thousands of files containing - plays, photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, posters, correspondence, tickets, etc.
The IDCPA library consists of thousands of theater books, plays, periodicals, short plays, monologues, booklets, etc. The IDCPA audio-visual collection consists of hundreds of taps, records, slides and a few films. The IDCPA stage-design collection consists of hundreds of sketches for costume and scenery as well as cartoons and portraits. A few exhibitory items were also deposited at The IDCPA - maquets, marionettes, furniture and scenery pieces.
The IDCPA is the largest of its kind in Israel. It offers reference services to art and cultural institutions as well as to individual users of various fields of interests.
In 1999 was inaugurated The Videoteque in honor of Professor Moshe Lazar the founder of The Katz Faculty of The Arts. The Videoteque holds videos documenting Israeli theater productions and serves exclusively faculty and graduate students of The Theater Arts Department.
The IDCPA is located in hall no. 7 at the Sourasky Central Library of Tel-Aviv University and is open four days a week: Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 12:00-16:00 PM
Contact:
Mr. Shimon Lev-ari - Director
The Sourasky Central Library, Tel-Aviv University,
P.O.B. 39040 Tel-Aviv 69978 Israel
Tel. 972-3-6408304
Fax. 972-3-6409970
E-mail : idcpa@post.tau.ac.il
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