What it Takes: An Interview with Digital Dance Resource Pioneers
by: Rebecca Salzer, Project Director Introduction Sybil Huskey and Melanie Aceto are dance artists and educators who have contributed significantly to the planning phase of the Dancing Digital Project. Part…
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Insights into the Creation of the Dance Heritage Video Archive at USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance
by: Alison D’Amato, Ph.D. In early 2018, I was in my second year at USC’s recently established Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, mostly teaching lecture courses in dance history and…
Thoughts on the COVID-19 Digital Dance Landscape
by: Rebecca Salzer, Project Director For the past several years, I’ve been writing and speaking at conferences, urging a more open-minded approach to making full dances available online. My credo…
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One Educator’s Response to the Gap in Online Dance Resources
by: Melanie Aceto, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo Access to recordings of complete dances One of the greatest challenges in teaching dance technique and composition that I have faced over…
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On Sustainability and Access
by: Eugenia Kim, doctoral candidate The questions of sustainability and access are crucial for any content-driven digital project in the 21st century. They are also some of the most difficult…
Innovative Digital Humanities Research in Dance
by: Hannah Kosstrin, Ph.D. The third session during our May 2019 Dancing Digital Symposium was entitled Innovative Digital Humanities Research in Dance. Its focus on digital research tools for dance…
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The History of Efforts to Improve Access to Online Dance Resources: Opening Symposium Remarks
by: Sali Ann Kriegsman Thank you, Libby. And thank you, Rebecca, for inviting me to the Symposium and for spearheading this effort. Though I haven’t been active in this aspect…
An Introduction to Dancing Digital
by: Rebecca Salzer, Project Director Welcome to the Dancing Digital project! We are a group of dance artists, educators, scholars, archivists, and legal and systems design specialists, working with support…