Ethnic Dance Theatre Archive Project
To hire a qualified professional to assess the archival collections held by Ethnic Dance Theatre.
$4,500,000 the first year and $6,500,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Funds are to be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer these funds using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
Available upon request. grants@mnhs.org
Short Term Goal was to catalog 100% of the archives of the Ethnic Dance Theatre organization. The entire contents of the archive has been sorted, inventories and boxed. Materials that are not pertinent to archival research were returned to the organization.
Intermediate Term Goal was to eventually, specifically the audio and video materials that recorded performances of Ethnic Dance Theatre should be digitized. The plans are to submit an application for small grant support to accomplish this goal.
Long Term Impact is for the collection to be available to researchers and future artists. Internal and external audiences will have excellent access to the Ethnic Dance Theatre materials for as long as the Performing Arts Archive and its successors are able to provide it. To this end, the digitization of aforementioned audio and video materials that reflect 40 years of performing unique materials and will be of interest to a wide variety of users, including scholars or music and culture, ethnic specialists and others.
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org