OREsoleau.xml Guide to the Carol Soleau Papers 1978-2010 Soleau (Carol) Papers Finding Aid Author: Karl McCreary. Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center 2025
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This finding aid was encoded in EAD by Archon 3.21 from an SQL database source on October 16th, 2025. Encoding was modified by Chris Petersen for Archives West compliance. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). Soleau, Carol J., 1950- Carol Soleau Papers 1978-2010 MSS Soleau 0.25 cubic feet 2 boxes including 1 oversize box Materials in English. Special Collections and Archives Research Center
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The Carol Soleau Papers document the teaching career of Oregon State University dance professor Carol Soleau (1950- ) as well as her management of Oregon Dance, a dance performance troupe that she founded in 1978. Along with course syllabi, exam blanks, and class handouts, this collection includes correspondence, event programs, flyers, and posters. Soleau taught classes in modern dance, jazz dance, and ballet from 1977 to 2016. Biographical Note:

Carol Soleau (1950- ) came to Oregon State University in 1977 to teach dance in the School of Health and Physical Education. With her graduate work at Stanford University focused on a combination of modern dance, education, and choreography, Soleau followed her dreams to New York after earning her masters in 1974. At OSU, Soleau taught courses in modern dance, ballet, and jazz. In 1978, Soleau organized the Oregon State Dance Theatre (later known as Oregon Dance) community dance troupe to encourage regular staging of modern dance performances among OSU dancers and local professionals. As director of the troupe, Soleau choreographed and created many of the pieces featured at the yearly performances of Oregon Dance. She also supported the troupe by organizing a dance performance class designed to prepare students for performing at Oregon Dance's annual showcase. The last performance of the Oregon Dance troupe was staged in 2014.

To honor her instructional legacy, Soleau was recognized with two OSU awards: the Carl Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award (1988) and the Excellence in Teaching Award (1997).

Soleau retired in 2016.

 Posters. Dance--Oregon--Corvallis. Dance--Study and teaching (Higher)--Oregon-Corvallis. Colleges and Universities Corvallis Oregon Performing Arts

These materials were transferred to SCARC in 2016 and 2019 by the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

This collection is open for research.

Carol Soleau Papers (MSS Soleau), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

A portrait shot of Soleau is available in the Media Services Photographs Collection (P 119). Soleau is also featured in a 1981 group shot of faculty from the School of Health and Physical Education that is available in Oregon Digital. Soleau is documented in a video recording of a 1987 seminar and roundtable discussion on OSU faculty sabbatical experiences. At that event, Soleau describes her own sabbatical in New York City. That recording is available in OSU MediaSpace.

Other OSU dance instructors documented in SCARC collections include the Betty Lynd Thompson Papers (MSS Thompson); the Cathy Dark Papers (MSS Dark); and the Kathleen A. Kerr Papers (MSS Kerr) as well as the College of Health and Human Performance Records (RG 031). Additional footage of dance performances are available in the Oregon State University Historical Motion Picture Films (FV 048).

The Carol Soleau Papers document the teaching career of dance professor Carol Soleau as well as her management of Oregon Dance, a dance performance troupe that she founded in 1978. Along with course syllabi, this collection includes correspondence, event programs, exam blanks, class handouts, flyers, newspaper clippings, posters, and student papers.

Soleau's instruction of dance classes is reflected in the course syllabi, exam blanks, class handouts, flyers, and student papers. The event programs, newspaper clippings, and posters document performances of the Oregon Dance troupe.