Series VII. Personal Files, 1907-2009, inclusive
Extent
16 Linear Feet in 14 manuscript boxes, 6 record cartons, 3 cassette boxes, and 2 flat boxes.
Extent
11.7 Gigabytes in 1,618 computer files.
Scope and Contents
Series VII. Personal Files contains a wide variety of materials related to Torr's personal life, including planners, address books, contact lists, correspondence, and curricula vitae and biographical statements. Materials related to Torr's education include records from her high school education; her dance educaton at Dartington College of Arts; and other trainings and certifications such as shorthand, counseling and psychotherapy, aikido, and shiatsu. This series also includes performance and exhibition ephemera produced by other artists and contemporaries, collected by Torr as she worked and traveled; books with inscriptions, given to Torr as gifts from authors and artists that she was in community with; notes related to Torr's personal studies, such as learning languages, shiatsu, acting, anatomy, yoga, and acupuncture; audiovisual recordings depicting Torr's travels; fiiles and mockup designs for her website; and photographs and recordings used as reference for Torr's teaching and performance work.
Arrangement
This series is arranged chronologically with materials of the same content type grouped together.
Performance and exhibitions by contemporaries, 1907-2016, inclusive
"When a Fellow is Twenty One, as introduced by Hetty King" -- Sheet music, 1907
Box: 61, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Digital video -- "Big Room," Simone Forti and Peter Van Ripper, October 1977
Digital materials
Digital video -- "Big Room," Simone Forti and Peter Van Ripper (Material Type: Electronic Record)
1980s, 1980-1989, inclusive
Ephemera, 1980-1989, inclusive
Box: 55, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Video recording -- David Van Tieghem Solo Performance Excerpts, 1981-1989, inclusive
Box: 74, VHS: cuid43470 (Material Type: Video)
Scope and Contents
Includes: Benefit for Performance Space 122, NYC (1989); En Garde Arts site-specific "At the Chelsea" Festival, Chelsea Hotel, NYC (1989); LACE Arts Center, Los Angeles (1987); "Ear to the Ground" video piece (1981).
Video recording -- "Framed" by Mary McFerran, 1987
Box: 70, VHS: cuid43720 (Material Type: Video)
1990s, 1990-1999, inclusive
Ephemera, 1990-1999, inclusive
Box: 55, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Video recording -- Nutten and Nuttchen "Keine Panik", 1993
Box: 77, VHS: cuid43721 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- Stewart Taylor Showreel, 1994
Box: 72, VHS: cuid43714 (Material Type: Video)
Scope and Contents
Includes "Comfort of Strangers" (1990); "Env. #1" (1990); "Interface" (1991); "Games of Choice and Chance" (1991); "Promiscuous Tangle" (1992); "Wank Stallions" (1993); "Forensic Fictions" (1993).
Video recording -- Montel Williams, July 5, 1995
Box: 70, VHS: cuid43719 (Material Type: Video)
Digital video -- "Walkurie" at La Mama (1990) / Rumsfeld's "Son In Law" at LPV Garden (2005), 1990-2005, inclusive
Digital materials
Digital video -- "Walkurie" at La Mama (1990) / Rumsfeld's "Son In Law" at LPV Garden (2005) (Material Type: Electronic Record)
2000s, 2000-2010, inclusive
Ephemera, 2000-2010, inclusive
Box: 55, Folder: 4-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Digital ephemera, 2001
Digital materials
Digital ephemera (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Digital video -- "Mistermissmissmisster" by Ana Borralho and João Galante, 2003-2006, inclusive
Digital materials
Digital video -- "Mistermissmissmisster" by Ana Borralho and João Galante (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Digital video -- "Symphony for Swimmers," Performance at the Bridge, December 10, 2006
Digital materials
Digital video -- "Symphony for Swimmers," Performance at the Bridge (Material Type: Electronic Record)
2010s, 2011-2016, inclusive
Ephemera, 2011-2016, inclusive
Box: 55, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 56, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Digital video -- "Dawdle," Anaïs Héraud, May 18, 2013
Digital materials
Digital video -- "Dawdle," Anaïs Héraud (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Undated materials, undated, inclusive
Audio recording -- The Chorus of Gastornis, undated, inclusive
Box: 82, audiocassette: cuid43926 (Material Type: Audio)
Scope and Contents
"Concept music" by various artists, including Larry Elliott, Joel Stone, Brendan Harrington, and Rick
Digital audio -- "Ambush," Jay Walker
Digital materials
Digital audio -- "Ambush," Jay Walker (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Flyers and leaflets
Box: 56, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Playbills and programs
Box: 56, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Video recording -- Bobby Baker Kitchen Show, Yolander Snaith
Box: 74, VHS: cuid43717 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- Butch Chernofsky
Box: 81, MiniDV: cuid43716 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- Robert Chroscicki Demo Tape
Box: 74, VHS: cuid43715 (Material Type: Video)
General Certificate of Education, Central Institute of Further Education, Bristol, 1969
Box: 47, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speedwriting Shorthand Diploma, October 16, 1969
Box: 47, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
General Certificate of Education, A.E.B. London Centre, June, 1972
Box: 47, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Union of Students card, Dartington College of Arts, 1975
Box: 47, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dance studies, 1975-1984, inclusive
Box: 47, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Diploma of Dance in Education, Dartington College of Arts, July 3, 1976
Box: 61, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Biographical statements, 1976-2004, inclusive
Box: 47, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planners, 1976-2013, inclusive
Planner, 1976
Box: 47, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 1978
Box: 47, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 1978
Box: 47, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 1980
Box: 47, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 1981
Box: 48, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 1984
Box: 48, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 1986-1987, inclusive
Box: 48, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 1988
Box: 48, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner and address book, 1991-1993, inclusive
Box: 48, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 2002
Box: 48, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 2004
Box: 48, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 2006
Box: 48, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 2007
Box: 49, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 2008
Box: 49, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 2011
Box: 49, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planner, 2013
Box: 49, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anatomy / Physiology self-evaluation, June, 1978
Box: 49, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Curricula vitae, 1978-2004, inclusive
Digital files
Digital materials
Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Paper materials
Box: 49, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, 1978-2016, inclusive
Correspondence, 1978-1989, inclusive
Box: 53, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Digital correspondence, 1980-2004, inclusive
Digital materials
Digital correspondence (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Correspondence -- Eric, Entr-act, November, 1989
Box: 63, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, 1990-1999, inclusive
Box: 53, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, 2000-2016, inclusive
Box: 53, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, undated, inclusive
Box: 53, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Postcards, 1978-1996, inclusive
Box: 53, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Postcards, 2000-2017, inclusive
Box: 54, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Postcards, undated, inclusive
Box: 54, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Emails, 2000-2003, inclusive
Box: 54, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Emails, 2004-2007, inclusive
Box: 54, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence with Rosie West, 2003-2009, inclusive
Box: 54, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Birthday cards, undated, inclusive
Box: 54, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Aikido certificates, 1980-1984, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Address books, 1983-2000, inclusive
Address book, 1983
Box: 49, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Address book, 1999-2000, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 1-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Address book -- "New Delhi Contacts," London GDNS, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Funding resources and applications, 1983-2004, inclusive
Paper materials, 1983-2004, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Digital files, 2001-2004, inclusive
Digital materials
Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Notepad, 1984
Box: 50, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Shiatsu notes and resources, 1984-2004, inclusive
Paper materials, 1984
Box: 50, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Digital files, 2001-2004, inclusive
Digital materials
Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Aikido notes and resources, 1985-1986, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Whitney Museum of American Art -- Independent Study Program, 1986-1987, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Books with inscriptions, 1988-2015, inclusive
Hugh MacDiarmid Selected Poems, David Craig and John Manson, November 10, 1988
Box: 56, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
One Skin (Found Body), James Graham, 1993
Box: 56, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Safer Sex Maniac's Address Book, 1990
Box: 56, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Annie Sprinkle: Post Porn Modernist, 1991
Box: 51, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life, David Bret, November 10, 1996
Box: 56, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Real Majority, Media Minority: The Costs of Sidelining Women in Reporting, Laura Flanders, 1997
Box: 57, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Works: The Big Toe, Agues Nedregard, August 7, 1997
Box: 60, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Path of Minor Planets, Andrew Sean Greer, 2001
Box: 57, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cunt-Ups, Dodie Bellamy, 2001
Box: 57, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Playwrights in 2003, Atelier D. Presents, 2003
Box: 57, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tarzan in der Schweiz, Pedro Lenz, 2003
Box: 57, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Drag King Anthology, Troka, Lebesco, Noble, April, 2004
Box: 57, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bohemians The Glamorous Outcasts, Elizabeth Wilson, February 26, 2005
Box: 58, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Skeptic Traveler, Susan Snively, November 5, 2005
Box: 58, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Erosion's Pull, Maureen Owen, 2006
Box: 58, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Playing Underground, Stephen J. Bottoms, 2006
Box: 58, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art, Eileen Myles, 2007
Box: 58, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Burning Cartography, Noni Benegas, July, 2007
Box: 59, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Lightning Field, Kenneth Baker, 2008
Box: 59, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Quinie Poems New and Selected, Mitch Corber, 2009
Box: 59, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
An Accident and American Tet, Lydia Stryk, 2009-2010, inclusive
Box: 59, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Detroit Diary, Jimini Hignett, 2010
Box: 59, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
On the Edge / Greateurs de L'Imprevu, Agnes Benoit-Nader, February 20, 2010
Box: 59, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Gentrification of the Mind, Sarah Schulman, May 21, 2012
Box: 59, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Networked Disruption , Tatiana Bazzichelli, 2013
Box: 60, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hope From Dead End Town, Black Dogs Third Quarterly, Summer 2013
Box: 60, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CyPosium: The Book, 2014
Box: 60, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Vulva, La Revelación del Sexo Invisible Mithu M. Sanyal, January 26, 2015
Box: 60, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance Works: The Big Toe, Agnes Nedregard, November 13, 2015
Box: 60, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Donald -- Correspondence and obituary, 1991-1992, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Art Matters" grant application, 1992
Box: 51, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Travel receipts, 1993-2007, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Switzerland travel documents, 1996
Box: 51, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Aikido recordings, 1998, undated, inclusive
Video recording -- "Aikido research", 1998
Box: 75, VHS: cuid43839 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "Aikido #2", undated, inclusive
Box: 81, MiniDV: cuid43840 (Material Type: Video)
Letterhead, 1999, undated, inclusive
Digital files, 1999
Digital materials
Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Paper materials, undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contact lists, 1999-2001, undated, inclusive
Digital files, 1999-2001, inclusive
Digital materials
Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Paper materials, undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 12-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Travel recordings, 1999-2010, inclusive
Video recording -- "York Romp, Tape 1", 1999
Box: 80, MiniDV: cuid43919 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "York Romp, Tape 2", 1999
Box: 81, MiniDV: cuid43918 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "Spring Alexandra Park", March 2005
Box: 80, MiniDV: cuid43913 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "DDD Trip to Brighton", August 15, 2006
Box: 81, MiniDV: cuid43848 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "DDD Aberdeen, Heather", September 17, 2006
Box: 81, MiniDV: cuid43847 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "Train Journey GLA, Carisue", October 8, 2006
Box: 80, MiniDV: cuid43910 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "Walking around Paris with Helen", April 17-18, 2010, inclusive
Box: 80, MiniDV: cuid43846 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "105 Buccleuch Street, Tape 1 of 3", undated, inclusive
Box: 80, MiniDV: cuid43915 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "Diane Sunnyside", undated, inclusive
Box: 80, MiniDV: cuid43912 (Material Type: Video)
Video recording -- "DDD Interview with Peter, Visit to Portobello", undated, inclusive
Box: 81, MiniDV: cuid43849 (Material Type: Video)
Website HTML files, 2000-2004, inclusive
Digital materials
Website HTML files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Scottish Enterprise Network -- Business planning materials, 2003-2004, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Shiatsu Society -- Correspondence and resources, 2003-2005, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Art postcards, 2003-2009, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Language learning notes, 2003-2009, inclusive
"German 2" class materials, 2003
Box: 51, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
German class notes, 2009
Box: 51, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Language learning notecards, undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Acting resources, Glasgow, 2004
Box: 52, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Business cards, 2004, undated, inclusive
Digital files, 2004
Digital materials
Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Paper materials, undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Job postings, 2004
Digital materials
Job postings (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Nightingale Shiatsu -- Ephemera, circa 2004
Box: 52, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 63, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bard College Commencement Program, May 22, 2004
Box: 52, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Professional development grant applications, Scottish Arts Council, 2004-2005, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cultural Enterprise Office -- Business resources, 2005
Box: 52, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Workshop and Artists Studio Preservation Scotland (WASPS) -- Housing documents, 2005-2008, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Amherst Graduation, May 28, 2006
Box: 81, MiniDV: cuid43916 (Material Type: Video)
Glasgow Independent Dance Studio, 2007
Box: 52, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
60th Birthday Celebrations, 2008
Digital files
Digital materials
Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Paper materials
Box: 52, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland Certificate, June, 2009
Box: 52, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reference photographs, 2008-2010, undated, inclusive
Digital photographs, 2008-2010, inclusive
Digital materials
Digital photographs (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Photo slides, undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 53, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Counseling certification video, undated, inclusive
Digital materials
Counseling certification video (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Reference recordings, undated, inclusive
The Beguiled Clint Eastwood / Real Sex for Diane
Box: 79, VHS: cuid43844 (Material Type: Video)
"Gender Stereotypes"
Box: 82, audiocassette: cuid43843 (Material Type: Audio)
"Gender Stereotypes in Music and Song" -- Donna
Box: 82, audiocassette: cuid43842 (Material Type: Audio)
Website mockups, undated, inclusive
Paper materials
Box: 53, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Opening Page" diagram
Box: 61, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yoga and acupuncture -- Notes and resources, undated, inclusive
Box: 53, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
