About The Dance Oral History Channel

In curating this Channel we were faced with an embarrassment of riches, both in the abundance and diversity of the archive’s recorded interviews.   Our primary constraint in this first offering was the limits on our staff (choosing and creating the audio clips takes time) as well as the complexity of copyright in an evolving field.  

The excerpts were selected from our 2010-2012 Oral History Project interviews, as well as from a recent special interview project, Speaking of Dancing.  In the coming months we plan to fill in many more interviews from recent years, and keep you abreast of our ongoing work through new clips and blog posts.   We will also offer a peek into much older interviews, highlighting gems from our audio archive that are, in some cases, more than 50 years old.

Acknowledgements:

2010-2012 Oral History Project interviews are supported in part by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  The Speaking of Dancing Project is made possible by a gift from Anne H. Bass.

This Channel was created under the direction of Oral History Project Coordinator, Susan Kraft.  It would not have been possible without the hard work and persistence of Oral History Archive assistant Cassie Mey, the creativity of Dance Heritage Coalition fellow Nichole Arvin, the website collaboration of James Murdock, the sound skills of Andrew Theodorou, and the contributions of Speaking of Dancing Project Coordinator, Imogen Smith.