DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM


Subject: DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:03:07 -0500


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Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:03:07 -0500
To: ninch-announce@cni.org
From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
May 4, 1998

                    A DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM
     Papers Available at: <http://www.preserve-inc.org/decade/papers.html>

Although the notice for this meeting came in rather late and the symposium
occurred this past weekend, the website contains abstracts of the papers
delivered at the conference.

The issues of dance preservation itself is not directly an issue for NINCH,
but the fact that they are at the heart of networking dance performances
and dance resources make it an important issue. Abstracts available are as
follows:

                    Introduction

                    Images of American Dance:
                    Documenting and Preserving a Cultural Heritage
                    Report on a study sponsored by the National Endowment
for
                    the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

                    Panel 1: Archives of a Company, Person or Tradition

                    American Dance Legacy Institute, Carolyn Adams
                    Classic Black, Jonnie Green
                    Classic Black, Dawn Lillie Horwitz
                    African American Dance Ensemble, Andrea Lawson
                    Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sherry Hunter
                    New York Baroque Dance Ensemble, Catherine Turocy
                    Legacy Oral History Project, Jeff Friedman
                    Erick Hawkins Dance Foundation, Rogert Engstrom
                    Jose Limon Dance Foundation, Carla Maxwell

                    Panel 2: Film and Video Initiatives

                    Momenta - Doris Humphrey , Stephanie Clemens and Amy Reusch
                    Bay Area Video Coalition , Sally Jo Fifer
                    George Balanchine Foundation, Nancy Reynolds
                    Check Your Body at the Door, Sally Sommer
                    House Foundation for the Arts, Barbara Duffy
                    UCLA Dance/Media Project, Judy Mitoma

                    Panel 3: Technological Innovations

                    Ohio State University OSU-MDP, Vera Maletic
                    Dance Notation Bureau, Illene Fox
                    Benesh Institute, Andrew Ward
                    Cunningham Dance Foundation, David Vaughan
                    Arizona State University, John Mitchell

                    Panel 4: Library and Archival Initiatives

                    Dance Librarians Discusison Group, Mary Strow
                    Dance Archives in England, Mary Edsall
                    Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Norton Owen
                    Lawrence and Lee Theatre Institute, Nena Couch
                    Dance Heritage Coalition, Michelle Forner and Catherine
                    Johnson

David Green
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PRESERVE, INC. presents A DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM
THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY - MAY 1 AND 2
at the JOYCE SOHO THEATER
155 MERCER STREET, NEW YORK CITY

How do we preserve the legacy of dance? How do we document our cultural
heritage? What has been achieved in the field over the past ten years?

A DECADE OF DANCE PRESERVATION will examine these issues and disseminate
models of preservation, providing a framework for other dance companies and
organizations to follow, strengthening our dance heritage and setting an
agenda for the next decade.

Using the findings from the NEA/Mellon Foundation report IMAGES OF AMERICAN
DANCE: DOCUMENTING AND PRESERVING A CULTURAL HERITAGE as a point of
departure, representatives from some forty major dance documentation and
preservation projects will explore the range of archival initiatives
undertaken in the past ten years. An exposition of dance preservation
models, videotapes, books, films, CD-ROM's, websites, and new
technologies will be on display throughout Saturday's sessions.

If you can't join us in person, please join us on-line at
www.preserve-inc.org.
Click on the SYMPOSIUM logo on our home page to get the conference schedule
and abstracts of papers to be presented on the topics of: Archives of a
Person, Company, or Tradition; Film and Video Initiatives; Technological
Innovations; and Library and Archival Initiatives.

We invite you to visit the symposium website and share your thoughts and
insights about dance documentation and preservation. Your comments,
questions, and contributions will help inform the field.

Cheers!
Leslie Hansen Kopp
Executive Director
Preserve, Inc.
Preserve_Inc@msn.com



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