Contributing to the Archive

The Archive welcomes contributions from all members of the Duncan community. You will be able to directly add certain information to your Dancer page and Repertory pages. Materials that are centrally housed on the Archive as part of either a Print Media Collection or Video Collection must be submitted in one of the formats outlined below. If you have something you wish to contribute that does not fit these guidelines, please contact us for help.

Please email ALL submissions to info@isadoraduncanarchive.org. Please include the Collection Category in the Subject Line (e.g. Video, Print Media). A separate email with an appropriate subject line is required for each submission.

What we accept

Repertory

We welcome contributions to our Repertory section from Duncan practitioners, teachers, and scholars. We want to be inclusive of all Duncan lineages: If you have been taught any dances differently than is described on the Archive, we would welcome a description of the dance as you learned it, with a note about who you learned it from.

Print Media Collections

The Archive can include any Duncan photos, drawings, programs, or other print media that you have to offer. This includes links to Public Collections and Private Collections housed directly on the Archive. Photos are best submitted in jpg or tif format, but we can work with other formats as well. Documents are best submitted as PDFs.

Video Collections

The Archive welcomes videos of Duncan choreographies as danced by Duncan practitioners. Videos should be submitted as a link to the specific video on a hosting site such as Vimeo or YouTube. We accept many different types of content, including isolated dances or suites, full performances, rehearsals, and montages of performance excerpts. Full performances can contain non-Duncan choreographies but should be primarily Duncan works. Please provide as much programmatic information about the video submitted, including but not limited to dancers, company, location, date, specific dances, music, timestamps of where specific dances begin, etc.

References

Please submit any new References as a Bibliography entry, following the format of the existing references. You can include a URL if you would like the entry to link to an external resource.

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