Jacob's Pillow Archives digitization of the moving image collection from 1992.2009.

FAIN: PW-285091-22

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. (Becket, MA 01223-4001)
Norton Owen (Project Director: July 2021 to present)

Digitization and updated catalog records for 3,336 audiovisual materials featuring performances, oral histories, lectures, and master classes from the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival from 1992 through 2010.

To support a large-scale digitization project of one-of-a-kind physical media from the Pillow’s extensive Archives. This three-year project will focus primarily on a collection of 3,336 moving images (performances, talks, classes, oral histories, special events, and more) recorded from 1992 through 2010, that currently exist on obsolete physical media and are only accessible on-site at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, MA. Additional materials to be digitized include photographs, correspondence, and other paper and photographic materials; these assets will provide invaluable contextualization to the moving images. This digitization work will make it possible to significantly grow our existing online resource Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive, will dramatically increase access to these unique resources, and will address critical preservation needs.