Our Mission

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to provide information on high quality danceable recordings for original source dance notation
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to promote good working relationships between musicians & performers of historical dance
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to honour the moral right of musicians to be identified with their music arrangements & recordings
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to promote and support new recording of music from historical dance notation for which there are no high quality recordings
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to build a community that can lobby record labels to re-release classic recordings of historical dance music that are currently unavailable
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to build and maintain a resource for dance instructors who are looking for new material to teach
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to build and maintain a resource for students who have just learned a dance and wish to find a recording to go with it
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to build and maintain a resource for film & television producers/directors/researchers who need information on historical music & dance for an upcoming production
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to build and maintain a resource for theatre/opera directors/educational music departments who are planning to produce a work from, or set in, an historical period
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to provide a forum for dancers looking for musicians to record music for a dance that they are working on
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to provide a forum for musicians interested in dance music and looking for work
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to provide a forum for dance reconstructionists to call out for others’ opinions on notation interpretation conundrums