Preserve: teaching archives to dance companies.

• Autores: John Shepard
• Localización: Fontes Artis Musicae, ISSN 0015-6191, Vol. 58, Nº. 2 (ABR-JUN), 2011, págs. 148-156
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1987, a New York City symposium on preserving performing arts videotapas brought media attention to the fragility of the documents of dance history. Soon afterward, the symposium's convener, Michael Scherker, and one of its speakers, Leslie Hansen Kopp, formed Preserve, The Coalition for Performing Arts Archives. A survey of 52 U.S. Dance companies prompted Preserve to propose a series of jone-day workshops on archival management. With funding from the Mellon Foundation, Scherker and Kopp gave twenty workshops in nineteen cities from April 1989 to March 1990, introducing dance company representatives to principles of archival organization and practical preservation measures. Following Scherker's premature death, Kopp incorporated Preserve in 1991, and in 1995 she published the practical manual Dance Archives, which codified information presented in the workshops. Two decades later, the example of 1989-90 workshops might serve as a model for fostering the preservation of archives of musical performing organizations.