Preserve marks ten years of dance documentation.NEW YORK CITY--A diverse and dazzling array of dance archival projects was showcased at the "Decade of Dance Preservation" symposium held May 1 and 2 at the Joyce SoHo Theater. Organized and hosted by Leslie Hansen Kopp of Preserve, Inc., the event brought together dancers, scholars, archivists, librarians, and computer technicians to celebrate initiatives which document the field of dance. No less than twenty-five presentations were made on the first day. Speakers were grouped into four panels: Archives of a Company, Person, or Tradition; Film and Video Initiatives; Technological Innovations; and Library and Archival Initiatives. The first panel included, among others, historians Dawn Lille Horwitz and Jonnie Green discussing "Classic Black: The Process of Creating an Archive on Black Dancers in Ballet Prior to 1970," a project which included interviews, a symposium, and a traveling photographic exhibit. Jeff Friedman, of Legacy Oral History Project in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay , spoke about the group's training workshops, consulting services, and educational components. Several presenters on the Film and Video and Technology panels showed clips from documentary projects. Among them were Stephanie Clemens of Momenta Dance Company and videographer A person involved in the production of video material. Videographers shoot the images with a video camera (analog or digital) and may perform minimal or extensive editing of the resulting footage. Amy Reusch, who have collaborated to preserve the choreography of Doris Humphrey. Nancy Reynolds, Director of Research at the Balanchine Foundation, presented two educational projects: the Archive of Lost Choreography and the Interpreter's Archive. Technological innovations featured a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). on the life and work of Daniel Nagrin; two notation projects from the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and the Benesh Institute in London; one of Ohio State University's Multimedia Prototype interactive CD-ROM projects, and the computerization com·put·er·ize tr.v. com·put·er·ized, com·put·er·iz·ing, com·put·er·iz·es 1. To furnish with a computer or computer system. 2. To enter, process, or store (information) in a computer or system of computers. of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Archives, directed by archivist David Vaughan. Librarians and archivists on the fourth panel highlighted ongoing efforts to collect and organize dance resources in a number of repositories. Nena Couch presented an overview of the Twyla Tharp Archives at Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. , while Norton Owen discussed preservation activities at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American modern dancer Ted Shawn in 1930, and three years later it became the home of his Men . The Dance Heritage Coalition, a consortium of seven U.S. libraries, was represented by Catherine Johnson and Michelle Forner. The Coalition has undertaken several projects designed to catalog dance materials and make them more available to the public through local as well as national databases. Mary Strow v. t. 1. Same as Strew. [ imp. os> r>; p. p. os> r> or Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. - Milton. demonstrated the DLDG listserve, an online bulletin board. Preserve honored four outstanding dance preservation pioneers and their projects: Vaughan, Reynolds, Vera Maletic from OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. , and Carolyn Adams of the American Dance Legacy Institute. The second day's activities included video and CD-ROM demonstrations, as well as a presentation of reflections and conclusions. The final session was an open forum--those in attendance came away with ideas, energy, and a renewed commitment to their endeavors. |
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