ABSTRACT
Along with Carolyn Adams and Julie Strandberg, I initiated the program that became the Etude Project of the American Dance Legacy Institute. The heart of the project was to make works of master modern dance choreographers in available for study, performance, and scholarly examination by dance students, teachers, and practitioners. The model we developed has the following phases: the composition of a short dance Etude by the choreographer, based on an established masterwork; the scoring of that work in Labanotation as it was being created; the documentation of the composition sessions, rehearsals, and discussion sessions with dancers, colleagues, and viewers on video; and the dissemination of questionnaires to the field on historical perspectives, background information about the choreographer, and the impact of the original work, to be formulated into CD-ROM. These diverse elements were conceived as a multimedia volume on the Etude and the choreographer.
