Custodial History
Following the death of company founder Erick Hawkins in 1994, the Erick Hawkins Dance Foundation Board of Directors chose the Library of Congress as its repository by unanimous vote in 1999, with the intention of including the personal papers of both Hawkins and Dlugoszewski. Before the first donation of papers and recordings was completed, composer Lucia Dlugoszewski, then company artistic director and Hawkins's widow, met an untimely death in 2000. Because she died intestate, the Public Administrator of the County of New York received the contents of her apartment, which contained records of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company as well as her own papers. In 2018, the Public Administrator's office donated papers and recordings of Dlugoszewski's estate to the Library of Congress, where her papers have been added to the Music Division's Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski Papers.