Archiving Fellows

Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sasha Jelan’s work with Viver Brasil challenged her notion of what an archive is and how one can archive remotely.

Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sarah Nguyễn reflects on incorporating people-first and disability-first language in archival description, to balance searchability with flexibility and adaptability.

Archiving Fellow Sumi Matsumoto reflects on her first summer working with World Arts West to develop an archival database that will support a web portal making available the rich archives of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.

The fourth and final of Archiving Fellow Daina Coffey’s blogs focuses on the Chicago Dance History Project’s role as a community-based, dancer-run organization, as well as her work organizing vast digital collections.

Building on her second blog post, Archiving Fellow Daina Coffey expands on the ideas of interactivity in the archive which guided her work curating an exhibit for the Joel Hall Dancers and Center’s “Legacy Concert”

In her second blog post, Archiving Fellow Daina Coffey outlines the strategies, challenges, and successes of curating a multimedia exhibit to celebrate the history of Chicago-based Joel Hall Dancers and Center.

In the sixth and final post about her Archiving Fellowship, Carolina reflects on what she learned from the experience, and discusses the need for flexible and scalable approaches to dance archives.

In the fifth post about her Archiving Fellowship, Carolina writes about working on the personal papers of choreographer Elle Johnson at UCLA, and how archives can fill in historical gaps.

In the fourth post about her Archiving Fellowship, Carolina writes about continuing her work on indexing audiovisual materials at Lula Washington Dance Theatre, and how this work supports the company.

In the first of four blog posts, Archiving Fellow Daina Coffey reflects on how her notions of “the archive” expanded during her work as a Fellow with Chicago Dance History Project and the Joel Hall Dance Center.