Dance/USA Philadelphia Records

Dance/USA Philadelphia (Dance/UP) was established in March 2007, as a branch of a Washington, DC based non-profit organization. With Lois Welk as Director, Dance/UP followed on several organized efforts to support dance in Philadelphia and provided leadership and advocacy to the local dance community. It worked collaboratively with other performing arts organizations and developed programs such as Dance in Public Places and New Stages for Dance, among others.

The organization closed on March 31, 2015, after losing grant funding from its primary funder, the William Penn Foundation.

The Dance/USA Philadelphia Records document nearly twenty years of dance advocacy in Philadelphia, including several predecessor efforts, from 1988 to 2015. The collection includes administrative records, program files, digital photographs and videos, and printed materials that evidence Dance/Up programs and events. There are also reference materials, documenting assorted dance companies, choreographers, and other organizations in Philadelphia and elsewhere.

The collection is arranged into 5 series as follows:

• Series 1: Administrative files, 2004-2014, undated
• Series 2: Program files, 2002-2015, undated
• Series 3: Digital photographs and audiovisual materials, 2004-2014
• Series 4: Publicity and printed materials, 1985-2008, undated
• Series 5: Companies, choreographers, organizations, 1988-2008
• Subseries 5.1: Philadelphia, 1998-2008, undated
• Subseries 5.2: Other locations, 1996-2008, undated

Donated by Dance/USA Philadelphia, via Marcel W. Foster, Operations Manager, April 2015.

Original audiovisual materials, as well as preservation and duplicating masters, may not be played. Researchers must consult use copies, or if none exist must pay for a use copy. Certain digital files may also be inaccessible. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.

Collection minimally processed and finding aid prepared in June 2015 by Patrick Stalter, student worker, supervised by Courtney Smerz, Collection Management Archivist.

Dance Advance (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records, SCRC 226, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

South Street Dance Company Records, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco) Records, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Zero Moving Dance Company Records, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Ballet Records, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Use

The Dance/USA Philadelphia Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Dance/USA Philadelphia Records, SCRC 174, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Publisher

Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center

Finding aids author

Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.

Date

November 2023

Creator

Dance/USA Philadelphia

Subject

Dance -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Dance archives -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Dance companies

Dance festivals

Organization

Dance/Up

Dance/USA (Organization)

Place

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Language

English

Form

Administrative records

Born digital

Clippings

Compact discs

DVDs

Ephemera

Photocopies

Periodicals

Press releases

Vertical files

VHS (TM)

Scrapbooks

Financial records