What Archivists Want You To Know About Preserving Your Records

Maybe it’s because dancers tend to have good memories, sharpened by years of retaining complex choreography. Perhaps it’s because performing demands we surrender fully to the present moment. Whatever the reason, dance artists often don’t start organizing and preserving their records until late in their careers or after retirement—if at all. Archiving sounds complicated, many […]

The Most Magical Dancing in New York City Last Week Was in a Public Library

Libraries, rightly or not, are frequently designated in the public consciousness as places that are silent, stuffy and still. This has never really been the case when it comes to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Last Wednesday, as dance world luminaries and patrons alike gathered […]