This series contains materials concerning the purpose, functions, and activities of the Grell/Colefax Collection on Russian ballet. Major topics in the Administrative series include documents providing an overview of the Archive and its goals; the Archive’s interactions with other civic and cultural institutions; planning documents for tours and exhibits; documents relating to Grell’s work as President of the Archive and as production assistant and liaison on various tours; writings by Grell, including articles he wrote for the newsletter Danceletter and the letter he wrote to Soviet Life, “To the Bolshoi Ballet from an American Admirer,” and associated notes; materials supporting various film screenings and listing the contents of various films; meeting agendas; documents concerning Sonya Colefax; a script for a video about the Archive, entitled For the Love of Art:The Story of Dwight Grell and His Ballet Archives; biographical information about Grell; research on ballet; and notes. A subseries, Exhibitions, contains materials concerning the administration of exhibitions.