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SESSIONS Current issues in archiving and transmitting the dance heritage in the 21st century by Valerie Preston-Dunlop, UK Paper For the past year LABAN has been engaged in planning an expansion of its archive programme following the award of a £50,000 planning grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. As Project Champion my team consists in the Acquisitions Research Officer, the Archivist, the Audience Development Consultant and LABAN’s Research department. The Project Planning Manager has pulled the strands together to design a five-year expansion at LABAN for access to the heritage, both in archival form and through the bodies of dancers. While use by the profession and the public is paramount the project is an interaction of its four strands: acquisition, preservation, research, access. During the funded year crucial discussions have taken place on what archiving needs to encompass to-day, contexting scores of all sorts within the whole and looking at the current challenges and opportunities that technology and the moving image pose. Valerie Preston-Dunlop Dip.Ed, MA, PhD, Consultant, LABAN. Planning Project at LABAN. Valerie’s biography Rudolf Laban: An Extraordinary Life (1998) received the Dance Perspectives award, she is a well known practical scholar and author working internationally. A founding member of ICKL, chairman of the Research Committee for several seasons she was honoured as a Core Member. In 1966 she introduced Motif Writing and has been at the forefront of developing Laban Studies for dance theatre as Choreological Studies. Curator of The Laban Collection in the Archive at LABAN, translator of Schrifttanz 1928-32, recreator of Laban’s Kammertanz works 1923-28, she is currently directing an archive film The American Invasion 1962-72. Most recent book: Dance and the Performative: a choreological perspective.
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