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 to Repertory pages. Materials that are centrally housed on the Archive as part of either a Memorabilia 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 submissions to info@isadoraduncanarchive.org. Please include in the subject line the category that you are submitting materials for. If you are submitting materials for multiple categories, a separate email submission for each is requested.
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.
Memorabilia Collections
The Archive would be pleased to display any Duncan photos, drawings, programs, or memorabilia that you have to offer. 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 or 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.