n. (abbr. DHC)a national consortium of institutions holding collections related to dance and who work collaboratively on projects to document the history of dancePitti 1997, 281The University of California, San Diego successfully began experimenting with exporting into EAD finding aids that had been created in a database. SOLINET decided to incorporate EAD into its Department of Commerce-funded Monticello Project, and the NEH-funded Dance Heritage Coalition also made the decision to employ EAD in its archival access project.Reason 2003, 84As a result, many organizations have been established directly to counter the problem of the disappearance of dance. The National Initiative to Preserve America’s Dance (NIPAD) was set up in 1993, along with the Dance Heritage Coalition, SAVE AS: DANCE, and Preserve, Inc., whose slogan is “assuring dance a life beyond performance.”McCrory and Russell 2005, 100A finding aid to the Twyla Tharp collection was encoded and added to the Dance Heritage Coalition group of finding aids on a New York Public Library server, which provided an environment for searching and displaying finding aids.DHC 2023The DHC is the sole national non-profit alliance of institutions holding significant collections of materials documenting the history of dance. Its mission is to preserve, make accessible, enhance and augment the materials that document the artistic accomplishments in dance of the past, present, and future.
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The Dance Heritage Coalition began in 1992 after a Mellon Foundation study identified problems in preserving the relevant historical record.
