Richard Bull will be arriving at Lincoln Center, via the New York Public Library Archival shipping dock on Amsterdam Avenue between 64th and 65th Street, in 23 separate boxes. Having spent the last 3 years in various locations -- including Manhattan Mini Storage; the lower garage of his daughter & son-in-law's home in Kingston, NY; the guest house of his daughter and son-in-law's home in Kingston, NY; the guest room closet of that same home on Ashokan Road; and finally, his daughter and son-in-law's green Toyota Sienna Mini-Van en route to the destination -- he will at last cardboard box his way into Lincoln Center.

Bull will do a stationary waiting-dance in the storage catacombs which are part of the newly re-named Jerome Robbins Archival Dance Collection at the New York Public Library's Lincoln Center branch. Silently he will sing his jazz tune, "I wait for you, Oh Yeah, Come and read me now, Oh Yeah, Come and watch the VHS pleeeeeaaaassssseeeee, OH Ho Ho Ho Yeah, I wait for You."

Denison University Dance &Women Studies Professor Gill Wright Miller organized the first draft of the Bull Collection register. The project was then taken over by renowned dance archivist Mary E. Edsall. Ms. Edsall's full vitae is too extensive to list in this release. In addition to her Presidency of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) (www.corddance.org), her current projects include acting as the head of the Philadelphia Dance Archive Project, and archiving Robert Ellis Dunn's Collection. Most impressive to Mr. Bull's daughter however, was the way Ms. Edsall figured out EXACTLY how to put the pillows back together on the Guest Cottage Day Bed at the Kingston archival location. That, and Mary's deeply feeling-full soul.

Other collaborators on this Preservation Piece include: Richard's co-founder (along with Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull aka Cynthia Novack) of the Richard Bull Dance Theater & the Improvisational Arts Ensembles, Inc., dancer turned Master Iyengar Yoga Instructor Peentz Dubble; dancer/choreographer and writer of progressive dance history Ms. Susan Leigh Foster; and dancer/choreographer/film maker Peter Richards. Some of the boxes are "unprocessed," and, as per Ms. Edsall's recommendation, are nonetheless ready for submission into the capable hands of Lincoln Center Dance Archivist Monica Mosley (Ms. Mosley concurs), and head curator Madeline Nicols, both of whom give Richard a warm WELCOME.

Special thanks for the video spot-checks and suggestions for the "first tier" of videos for submission goes to former RBDT company members Meg Fry and Kelly Donovan, both of whom are part of the "new" IAE and the RBDTRep company currently in residence at the Middle Collegiate Church. The remainder of the videos - "the Second Tier" - will be preserved and duplicated, but have been kept active so that filmmaker Peter Richards may have access to them while he begins work on his film documentary of Richard's work, produced by Richard's daughter Katie Bull Prichett.

Also, not yet submitted are audiocassette tapes which will undergo reproduction for preservation and duplication for the active IAE files. They are anticipated to be of use in redirections of Bull's improvisational structures.

Richard Bull's Amsterdam Avenue "entrance" into Lincoln Center will have to be imagined by all who care to imagine...the green Toyota Sienna Mini-Van will leave the Castle Village Parking Lot on Cabrini Boulevard in Hudson Heights, NYC at approximately 12 noon on December 19. Driving southbound, passing the High Alert officers who guard the off-ramps of the George Washington Bridge, it is likely that Mr. Bull's daughter will be listening to either Aretha Franklin or James Brown as she drives. Certainly she will have a pathetic moment of self-pity, followed assuredly by elation and self-less calm. She sometimes picks her nose when alone. Exiting at the 59th street exit, Ms. Bull will probably drive up Columbus Avenue, changing lanes with contained inner panic as she has a hard time judging rear-view mirror distances. She will then cross over above 65th street, so that she can drive south on Amsterdam to the 64th street dock in time for Richard's 1:30 appointment. And soon, as the Lincoln Center archivists do their "merging" with Richard Bull, a "new audience" will have a chance to "see" the many dances one dance dance; movement defined by library style; space/time/force dictated by archival materials & structure. It should be a fun night for all.

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