Funding Dance Archives Projects: Three Approaches
Ahead of Dance/USA Connect: Denver, a convening grounded in archiving and preservation, learn about artists and organizations who have successfully secured support for diverse archiving projects.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: DCDC, Part 1
In the first part of his blog, Quentin Sledge describes his initial experience with exploring and beginning to organize Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s archives, and his discovery of legal pads containing notes by the company’s founder Jeraldyne Blunden.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: AXIS Dance Company, Part 3
In their third blog post, Sarah discusses being on-site at AXIS, working in basement storage, inventorying A/V materials, organizing costumes, preparing archival materials for marketing, and more.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: AXIS Dance Company, Part 2
In the second part of their blog, Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sarah Nguyễn writes about the process of recording oral histories with the former artistic directors of AXIS Dance Company, and shares resources and templates for oral history projects.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: DanceATL, Part 3
In her last blog post about her Archiving Fellowship with DanceATL, Yvette offers lessons and guidelines for managing a small-scale community-based oral history project.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: World Arts West, Part 4
In her fourth blog post, Archiving Fellow Sumi Matsumoto reflects on her second summer working with World Arts West and the lessons she learned about the collaborative nature of archiving projects.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: DanceATL, Part 2
In her second blog post about her Fellowship, Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Yvette Ramírez details the considerations that go into a dance-specific, community-based oral history project.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: DanceATL, Part 1
In her first blog post, Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Yvette Ramirez writes about conducting research in the archives of Spelman College to support her work on an Atlanta-based oral history project.
Archiving Fellowships Blog: World Arts West, Part 3
In her third blog post, Dance/USA Archiving & Preservation Fellow Sumi Matsumoto writes about the uses of archival metadata and her work on developing a customized metadata schema for World Arts West.
Dancing Through Disaster: The Rhythm of Resilience
Emergency preparedness experts from PAR and NCAPER discuss how dance artists and organizations can prepare for threats and disruptions caused by natural and human-made disasters.