The UC Irvine Libraries support the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series by providing a bibliography of the works of each Fellow. The bibliographies are available in print at the Langson and Science Libraries and at each public event.

2001 - 2002 Series

Cleo Parker Robinson

UC Irvine Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow
A Selective Bibliography: The UC Irvine Libraries
February 24, 2002

Compiled by Lorelei Tanji, Head, Collection Development
The UC Irvine Libraries

• Selected Awards
• Selected Magazine/Journal Articles
• Selected Newspaper Articles
• Miscellaneous
• Selected Videotapes
• Selected Websites

Selected Awards

• Coming Up Taller Award
  (http://www.cominguptaller.org/awards-2000/program7.html)
• National Council on the Arts, Member
  [Appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by U.S. Senate]
• Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
• Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Denver
• Induction into the Blacks in Colorado Hall of Fame
• Dance Women/Living Legends project

Selected Magazine/Journal Articles

• Anderson, Jack. "The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble."
  Dancing Times 85, no. 1020 (September 1995): 1151, 1153.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• Anderson, Jack and George Dorris.
  "New York newsletter [review of 1994 dance performances in New York.]."
  Dancing Times (August 1994):1077, 1079.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• Broili, Susan. "Reviews, national: American Dance Festival."
  Dance Magazine (November 1998): 90, 92.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• DeFrantz, Thomas. "The Power of the Drum." Attitude 11, no. 3 (Fall 1995): 78-82.
  

• Eichenbaum, Rose. " A Conference for Blacks in Dance: Legends of African-American Dance - Chuck Davis, Cleo Parker Robinson, Katherine Dunham and Others - Converge in Denver." Dance Teacher 215 (May-June 1999):67-71.

• Gagnon, V.R. "Denver and Robinson team up for renovation."
  Dance Magazine (March 1988): 12-14.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• -----. "'Voodoo' Emperor Jones a dance hit."
  Dance Magazine (May 1986):133.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246
  

• Gastineau, Janine.
  "Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble.
  (Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre, Denver, Colorado)."
  Dance Magazine 70, no. 1 (Jan, 1996):110-111.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• -----. "Presstime News: Blacks in Dance conference to be held in Denver."
  Dance Magazine (January 1999): 34, 39.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246
  

• Greskovic, Robert, Gus Solomons Jr., Doris Hering. NYC review.
  Dance Magazine (July 1994): 88, 90.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• Hering, D. "Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble."
  Dance Magazine 68 no. 11 (November 1994):90.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• Mazo, Joseph H. "News, national: ADF celebrating a century of modern dance." Dance Magazine (June 1995):27-28.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• Murphy, Anthony C. "A dance to Ellington.
  (choreographer Talley Beatty's new work, a tributeto Duke Ellington, 'Ellingtonia')." American Visions 9, no. 3 (June-July, 1994):10.
  Main Lib. Call No: E 185.5 A437

• Oberdorfer, Kathryn.
  "Spotlight on Cleo Parker Robinson: Dance is just life out loud."
  Dance Teacher Now 18, no. 7 (September 1996): 76-78, 82, 84, 86.
  

• Reiter, Susan. [Review: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble].
  Dance News (September 1979):11.

• "Robinson on the Move (Choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson appointed to the National Council for the Arts)." Dance Magazine 73, no. 8 (August, 1999):24.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246
  

• Schwartzkopff, Jim. "Cleo Parker Robinson visits NYC. (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble to perform in the Lincoln Center Out-of-Door series, Aug 14-15, 1994)." Dance Magazine 68, no. 8 (August, 1994):15.
  Main Lib. Call No: GV 1580 D246

• Sloat, Susanna. "Review: Dance Women/Living Legends."
  Attitude--The Dancers' Magazine 131 (Winter 1997-1998):60-61.

• Tobi, Tobias. "Dance Women/Living Legends.
  (Majestic Theater, New York, New York)."
  New York 30, no. 46 (Dec 1, 1997):126-27.

Selected Newspaper Articles

• Dunning, Jennifer. "Five choreographers compare notes on dance, black and otherwise. (Joan Myers Borwn, Ann Williams, Cleo Parker Robinson, Lula Washington, Jeraldyne Blunden honored in 'Dance women:Living Legends')."
  New York Times , 13 November 1997, B3(N), E1 (L).

• Gastineau, Janine. "A Star shining brightly amid a regional galaxy."
  New York Times, 1 October 2000, AR27(N), AR27 (L).

• Grossman, Cathy Lynn. "Dance Festival Honors Roots of Modern Dance."
  USA Today, Final Edition, 18 June 1998, (Life), 6D.

• Kriegsman, Alan M. "Robinson's Dramatic Dancers."
  The Washington Post. Final Edition, 6 November 1986, (Style), D8.
  

• Shugold, Marc. "Black Dancers Stress Unity, But Ominous Note Is Sounded; Dance: A Veteran Choreographer Warns Delegates at a Denver Conference That They are Facing Extinction."
  Los Angeles Times, Home Edition, 31 January 1990, Part F (Calendar), 4.

Miscellaneous

• Dance Collection. New York Public Library.
  Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble [clippings]. [1979?]-.

• International Conference on Black Dance. 1988-1990.
  Conference report, agendas, and press clippings. Philadelphia [etc.], 1988-. The third conference, sponsored by the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, was held in Denver, 1990.

Selected Videotapes

• Dance Women/Living Legends [videorecording] : A celebration of five African American women, their dance companies and their impact on American dance. VHS. Newark, New Jersey: presented by Aaron Davis Hall's Masters Series; co-presented with 651, An Arts Center at the BAM Majestic Theater, Brooklyn, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. 13-14 November 1997.

• [Leni Wylliams] [videorecording]. VHS. Videotaped in performance at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, Denver, Colo., as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, on September 28, 1995.

• Robinson, Cleo Parker. Blood River. VHS: Videotaped in performance at the Cleo Parker Robinson Theatre. 1996.

• Robinson, Cleo Parker. Run Sister Run. 3/4 in. Producer/director: Margie Soo Hoo Lee. Writer: Schyleen Qualls. Choreography: Cleo Parker Robinson. Music: Gordon Parks. Costumes: Martha Parker. Performed by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. Documentary on the creation of the dance work Run Sister Run, inspired by Angela Davis's experiences as a fugitive.

• Cleo Parker Dance Ensemble website:
  http://www.cleoparkerdance.org/cleo_2000/index.html

• Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble Work History: 1996 - 1999.
  http://www.3women.com/ny2file/cncrtdance.html

• Coming Up Taller Organization. Project Self Discovery.
  http://www.cominguptaller.org/profile/pr56multi.htm

• International Association of Blacks in Dance. Vice-Chair: Cleo Parker Robinson.
  http://www.iabdconference.com/Executive.htm

• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Millennium Stage Performance Archive. Cleo Parker Robinson performance (29 May 2001). [Digitized RealPlayer video clip.]
  http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=CLEOROBDAN

• Milkman, Dr. Harvey B. (Dept. Psychology, Metropolitan State College of Denver).
  Project Self Discovery and Natural Highs: Artistic Alternatives to Teenage Drug Abuse, Crime and Violence.
  http://www.mscd.edu/~psych/PSD/psd.htm

• National Council on the Arts - Council Members. Cleo Parker Robinson.
  http://arts.endow.gov/learn/NCA/Robinson.html

• Unique Artists - Cleo Parker Robinson
  http://www.uniqueartists.com/html/about_cleo.html