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Amberg, George. 1949. Ballet in America: The Emergence of an American Art. New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce.

Arbeau, Thoinot. [1588] 1925. Orchesography, a treatise in the form of a dialogue whereby all manner of persons may easily acquire and practice the honourable exercise of dancing. Translated from French by Cyril W. Beaumont. London: C. W. Beaumont.

Bay Area Video Collection. Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video. 1998. San Francisco: Bay Area Video Coalition.

Beaumont, Cyril. 1941. The Complete Book of Ballet. New York: Garden City Publishers, Inc.

Billington, James H. 1995. “Looking Beyond Technology.” Paper presented at commencement ceremony at American University, Washington, D.C., February 1.

Billington, James H. 1997. “The Historic Library and the Electronic Future.” Paper presented at the 150th anniversary celebration of the move to Washington Square of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., October 29.

Boas, Franziska. 1944. The Function of Dance in Human Society. New York: The Boas School.

Bopp, Mary S. 1994. Research in Dance: A Guide to Resources. New York: G.K. Hall.

Boyle, Deirdre. 1993. Video Preservation: Securing the Future of the Past. New York: Media Alliance.

Buckle, Richard. 1971. Nijinsky. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Child, Margaret S. 1985. “Funding Preservation Programs.” In Preserving America’s Performing Arts: Papers from the Conference on Preservation Management for Performing Arts Collection, 1982, edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner and Brigitte Kueppers. New York: Theatre Library Association.

Chujoy, Anatol, ed. 1949. The Dance Encyclopedia. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co.

Cohen, Selma Jeanne, ed. Dance Perspectives. Quarterly; 66 volumes published from winter 1959-summer 1976. Editors: 1959-64, A. J. Pischl and Selma Jeanne Cohen; 1965-76, Selma Jeanne Cohen. Nos. 1-60 published by Dance Perspectives Foundation; nos. 61-66 (v. 16-17, no. 2) published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.

Cohen, Selma Jeanne, ed. 1974. Dance as a Theater Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.

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Crane, J. Townley. 1849. An Essay on Dancing. New York: Nelson & Phillips.

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daPiacenza, Domenico. 1450. De arete saltandi et choreas ducendi.

Dowler, Lawrence. 1997. “Gateways to Knowledge: A New Direction for the Harvard College Library,” in Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning, and Research, edited by Lawrence Dowler. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Duncan, Isadora. 1927. My Life: A Spirited and Revealing Autobiography. New York: Boni and Liveright.

Ellis, Havelock. 1923. The Dance of Life. New York: Random House; The Modern Library.

Faulkner, T. A. [1892?] From the Ball-room to Hell. Chicago: The Henry Publishing Co.

Flecker, Dale. 1991. “Union Catalog of Dance Materials: Options for Housing and Access.” Unpublished report to the Dance Heritage Coalition Planning Group.

Genthe, Arnold. 1920. The Book of the Dance. Boston: International Publishers.

Guest, Ann Hutchinson. 1984. Dance Notation, the Process of Recording Movement on Paper. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Dance Horizons.

Gunji, Masakatsu. 1970. Buyo: The Classical Dance. Tokyo: Walker/Weatherhill.

Hanna, Judith Lynn. 1979. To Dance Is Human: Theory of Non-verbal Communication. Austin and London: University of Texas Press.

Henkle, Moses. M. 1851. Primary Platform of Methodism or, Exposition of the General Rules. Louisville: Southern Methodist Book Concern.

Hensen, Steven L. 1998. “NISTF II and EAD: The Evolution of Archival Description,” in The American Archivist 60, no. 3 (Summer 1997):284-296.

Jensen, Mary Ann. 1985. “On Dogs Tails, Dog Ears, and Just Plain Going to the Dogs.” In Preserving America’s Performing Arts: Papers from the Conference on Preservation Management for Performing Arts Collection, 1982, edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner and Brigitte Kueppers. New York: Theatre Library Association.

Johnson, Catherine. 1991. “Current Cataloging Practices and Standards at the Four Dance Heritage Coalition Planning Group Institutions.” Unpublished report to the Dance Heritage Coalition Planning Group.

Johnson, Catherine, ed. 1994. Beyond Memory: Preserving the Documents of our Dance Heritage. Pelham. N.Y.: Dance Heritage Coalition.

Keens, William, et al. 1991. Images of American Dance: Documenting and Preserving a Cultural Heritage. Report on a study sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Washington, D.C.: Dance Program, National Endowment for the Arts.

Kirstein, Lincoln. 1935. Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons.

Kopp, Leslie Hansen, ed. 1995. Dance Archives: A Practical Manual for Documenting and Preserving the Ephemeral Art. N.p.: Preserve, Inc.

Kuper, Hilda. 1969. “Celebration of Growth and Kingship,” African Arts/Arts d’Afrique 7: 57-59, 90. Los Angeles: University of California.

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Librarian of Congress. 1997. Television and Video Preservation: A Report on the Current State of American Television and Video Preservation. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Also available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/tvstudy.html

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Martin, John. 1933. The Modern Dance. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co.

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McCarn, Dave. 1997. “Toward a Universal Data Format for the Preservation of Media,” SMPTE Journal 106:477.

McNeill, William H. 1995. Keeping Together in Time, Dance and Drill in Human History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Morgan, Barbara. 1941. Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs. New York: Duell, Sloan Pearce.

Motylewski, Karen. 1991. “What an Institution Can Do to Survey Its Own Preservation Needs,” Technical Leaflet. Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation Center.

Northbrooke, John. [1577?] 1843. A Treatise Against Dicing, Dancing, Plays and Interludes. Reprint, London: The Shakespeare Society.

Research Libraries Group. 1997. “RLG Working Group on Preserving Magnetic Media.” Available at www.rlg.org/preserv/magmedia.html.

Royce, Anya Peterson. 1971. The Anthropology of Dance. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press.

Schwartz, Michael. 1993. “Video.” In The Poor Dancer’s Almanac: Managing Life and Work in the Performing Arts, edited by David R. White, Lise Friedman, and Tia Tibbitts Levinson. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Shawn, Ted. 1929. Gods Who Dance. New York: E.P. Dutton Inc.

Sorell, Walter. 1951. The Dance Has Many Faces. Cleveland, New York: World Publishing Co.

Strum, Richard E. 1998. “Review-A History of American Opposition To Dance,” Dance Chronicle, Studies in Dance and the Related Arts 21:303-316. Monticello, N.Y.: Marcel Dekker.

Van Bogart, John. 1995. Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling: A Guide for Libraries and Archives. Washington, D.C.: Commission on Preservation and Access, and St. Paul, Minn.: National Media Laboratory.

Vatsyayan, Kapila. 1968. Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts. New Delhi, India: Sangeet Natak Akademi.

von Laban, Rudolf. 1928. Schrifttanz: Methodik, Orthographie, Erlauterungen. Vienna: Universal-Edition.

Wagner, Ann. 1997. Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Weidner, Marilyn Kemp. 1985. “Management of Collections-Preservation Programs,” in Preserving America’s Performing Arts: Papers from the Conference on Preservation Management for Performing Arts Collection, 1982, edited by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner and Brigitte Kueppers. New York: Theatre Library Association.

Web addresses of organizations noted in this report

Arizona State University Department of Dance, Multimedia Learning Center: www.asu.edu/cfa/dance/academic/dance.html.

Association of Moving Image Archivists: www.amianet.org.

Commission on Preservation and Access and CLIR: www.clir.org/programs/cpa/cpa.html.

Credo Interactive, Inc., “LifeForms”: www.credo-interactive.com/dance/index.html.

Dance Heritage Coalition: www.danceheritage.org.

Dance Notation Bureau: www.dancenotation.org.

José Limón Dance Foundation: www.limon.org/archives.htm.

Library of Congress, “American Memory”: lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html.

National Initiative to Preserve American Dance: http://save-as-dance.org:91/nipad/html/nipad.html.

Ohio State University, “LabanWriter Project”: www.dance.ohio-state.edu/files/LabanWriter/index.html.

Ohio State University, “Software/CD Developments”: www.dance.ohio-state.edu/files/Dance_and_Technology/CD/CD-ROM _Development.

Preserve, Inc.: www.preserve-inc.org.

SAVEAS: DANCE: http://save-as-dance.org.

UC Berkely, California Heritage, “The Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks Dance Collection, ca. 1914-1945”: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage.

WGBH: http://info.wgbh.org/upf/.


 

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