Emerging Best Practices in Archiving Dance

How are dance artists and companies presenting and preserving themselves? And how are these presenting organizations interfacing with artists and collections? This panel will help to familiarize the process for choreographic and academic research and presentation. Moderated by Anne Morra, Associate Curator, Department of Film, MoMA, the panel also features Patricia Lent, Director of Licensing, Merce Cunningham Trust; Dr. Rachel Mattson, La Mama Archive Special Project Manager; Karl McCool, Distribution Manager, Electronic Arts Intermix; Cori Olinghouse, Archive Director for the Trisha Brown Dance Company and independent artist, curator, and archivist; Daisy Pommer, Manager of the Dance Division’s Original Documentations program, New York Public Library of Performing Arts; and Rufus de Rham, Programming Operations Manager, Film Society of Lincoln Center.