Collections
CCDR, INC. COLLECTIONS
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Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc. offers access to rare archival materials that reflect its history, events, and publications. Key documents are the full text CCDR Newsletters published from 1984 to 2013. These newsletters provide original articles and essays by Joann Keali'inohomoku and others as well as detailed information about the organization's development and activities over thirty years.
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DdA REFERENCE FORMAT FOR DANCE
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An important document published in 2010 by CCDR, Inc. is the DdA Reference Format for Dance. Elsie Ivancich Dunin and Candi Harrington deAlaiza conceived and produced this guide, which addresses the lack of a reference format specifically for dance to provide consistency using a range of written and unwritten materials by dance scholars in varied global contexts. The International Council for Traditional Music and Dance Ethnochoreology Study Group adopts the DdA Reference Format for all their sponsored publications.
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Access Notes from the Field here, including the work of these dance scholars:
Notes from the Field “is a tool for writing up research in process with impressions, data, connections, and interpretations that often would not have been revealed or have appeared in any other form” (Dunin, 2011, Salonsko Kolo in Croation and Chile into the 21st Century). The archive of postings and responses to these postings from 2010 to 2012 reflect fieldwork conducted by dance scholars, Elsie Ivancich Dunin, Danielle van Dobben Schoon, Andrea E. Seidel, Pegge Vissicaro, and others. The topics range from Dunin’s study of Romani gravestones in Macedonia and Los Angeles to Vissicaro’s research of quadrilhas caipiras in Brazil, Seidel’s examination of la danza, violence, and los pobres in Honduras, and van Dobben Schoon’s experiences living in Turkey.
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THEORY AND METHODS FOR AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF DANCE
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Another CCDR publication is Joann Keali'inohomoku’s 1976 PhD dissertation entitled, Theory and Methods for an Anthropological Study of Dance. Joann’s committee chairperson, Dr. Alan P. Merriam, Professor at Indiana University, was a renowned ethnomusicologist whose interdisciplinary approach to understanding expressive cultural human universals profoundly shaped Joann’s ideas about dance. Her doctoral investigation provides a comprehensive framework to learn about dance anthropology.
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ZOOM SOUP SEMINARS
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Janet Reineck, October 11, 2020 (no recording available at this time)
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Pegge Vissicaro, October 31, 2021 (paper presentation only)
Video documentation of events such as Soup Seminars that took place via Zoom from 2020 to 2021 exemplify CCDR’s interest in disseminating dance cultural knowledge that features the work of nationally and internationally known dance artists-scholars. During the COVID pandemic, CCDR received a small grant through the Arizona Community Foundation to produce a series of Zoom ‘lectures’ to increase participation. The series consisted of six productions, approximately 60 minutes in length. Each Soup Seminar contains a video and promotional flyer, except for one that only contains the file of a paper presentation also delivered at the Society of Ethnomusicology conference.
​​CCDR COLLECTIONS AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
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​Finding Aids:
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Gertrude Prokosch Kurath Collection I Finding Aid
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Eleanor King Collection I Finding Aid
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Allegra Fuller Snyder Collection I Finding Aid
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Elsie Ivancich Dunin Collection I No Finding Aid available at this time. Contact the curator for information.
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Joann Keali'inohomoku Collection I No Finding Aid available at this time. Contact the curator for information.
Since 2008, the CCDR Collections at ASU have continued to grow in breadth and depth, providing research materials for the interdisciplinary study of dance culture. Equal parts non-lending library, museum, and archive, the CCDR Collections at ASU is particularly strong in the allied fields of dance anthropology or the study of dance culture, including dance ethnology, ethnochoreology, ethnomusicology, dance notation, sociocultural anthropology, performance studies, religious studies, sociology, and area studies. Its diverse resources include over 15,000 monographs, as well as journals, photographs, slides, films, video and audio recordings, dolls, textiles, musical instruments, masks, costumes, puppets, and other artifacts. Central to the CCDR Collections at ASU are the archives of some of the most influential American dance scholars whose work contributes to the development of dance culture studies: Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Eleanor King, Joann Keali'inohomoku, Allegra Fuller Snyder, and Elsie Ivancich Dunin.
Links above provide information and finding aids for collections of individual dance anthropology scholars. Although many other collections within the CCDR Collections as ASU do not yet have finding aids, researchers may access them with the help of the curator. These include the ethnomusicology collections of anthropologist Daniel Crowley, ethnomusicologist Richard Haefer, and composer Robert MacGimsey, the Barbara Mettler Photo Collection, the Isa Bergsohn Collection.
The Collections' main location at Arizona State University is in Room 107B Bulldog Hall, 611 E. Orange Street, Room 120, Tempe, Arizona 85281.
For more information about the CCDR Collections at ASU, contact Shan Chuah, Fine Arts Specialist, School of Music, Dance, and Theater, Arizona State University, Tempe: srchuah@asu.edu​
JOANN KEALI'INOHOMOKU'S RECOLLECTIONS
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This section provides valuable video, audio, and text files specific to Joann. One set of recordings documents an extraordinary gathering of scholars, artists, and educators who met to reflect on the impact of Joann’s work and the field of dance anthropology. After Joann died on December 2, 2015. the CCDR Board of Directors began planning a major pre-conference event to coincide with the annual co-sponsored Congress on Research in Dance and Society for Dance History Scholars conference that took place at Pomona College in Claremont, California on November 6, 2016. Extensive video documentation of the event, “Moving Legacies: Remembering Joann Keali’inohomoku” will be available for access soon.
A Zoom meeting took place on November 25, 2020, with the intent to recall memories of Joann. Assembled were Adair Landborn, Elsie Dunin, Pegge Vissicaro, and Harriet Levine, Joann’s childhood friend in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. Conversations about Joann offers personal anecdotes and other largely unknown details about interactions each person had with Joann.
To know that Joann had the idea to comprehensively organize her scholarship is interesting. To actually see how she conceptualized this collation is almost magical and an extraordinary gift to share. The story begins in 2010 when Joann contacted Suzanna Tamminen, Director and Editor-in-Chief at Wesleyan University Press. Joann proposed creating a two volume, four part book that included her published and unpublished writings such as keynote addresses. Unfortunately, the length of work was unrealistic for Wesleyan University Press to produce so they rejected Joann's request. After contacting Wesleyan University Press again in May 2021, CCDR received the original "Keali'inohomoku Monograph Proposal" from Suzanna and is now able to share a Vision of Keali'inohomoku's Scholarship. Joann entitled the work, An Anthropologist Looks at Dance, which includes her plan for organizing these articles.​​​​​
​​NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
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Dr. Keali'inohomoku’s affiliation with Northern Arizona University spanned almost three decades. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology from 1970-1972 and 1975-1980. As Associate Professor, she worked there from 1980-1987 and in the summers from 1987-1996. Joann retired to dedicate full time attention to Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc. but continued to interact with NAU faculty, staff, and students. Interestingly, one of her interns from a local high school, Dr. Kerry Thompson, became a NAU Professor of Anthropology and now serves as Associate Vice Provost for Curriculum, Assessment, and General Studies in Academic and Workforce Alliances.
In 2011, Susan McGlothlin, Library Specialist with NAU’s Cline Library conducted a five-part series of Oral History Interviews with Joann. These interviews—approximately five hours total recording time—are an incredibly rich source of biographical information about Joann, her life experience, dance culture scholarship, and the development of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc. This archive also has related materials and will continue to grow with the acquisition of new files.​​​​
The CCDR Collections are a dynamic information repository designed to grow our dance culture community by providing public access to a variety of proprietary resources.
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Copyright protection applies to all tangible and digital media created by Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.
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Users must reference Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.
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Items digitally archived and located on websites administered by the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University (ASU) or Northern Arizona University (NAU) Special Collections should also receive formal acknowledgement.
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For further information or questions about access and use of these materials, please email info@ccdr.org.
CCDR Collections History
From 1981 to 2008, the location of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc. was at Dr. Joann Keali'inohomoku’s residence in Flagstaff, Arizona. Besides her business duties, Joann managed the CCDR Collections that consisted of personal items as well as donated books, journals, magazines, dolls, masks, costumes, musical instruments, and more.
The Collections were essential to addressing CCDR’s purpose as an exclusively charitable, educational and scientific organization. The corporate bylaws required CCDR to establish and sustain in perpetuity a living museum that included preserving, collating, researching and collecting materials relative to dance.
In 2000, the Dance Heritage Coalition, an alliance of the nation's major dance collections and housed in the Music Division of the Library of Congress, received a grant for $90,000 to pay for the conservation and preservation of three unique collections that represent important aspects of American dance artistry and traditions.
The grant came from a preservation program, Save America's Treasures, sponsored by the White House Millennium Council in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
CCDR Collections development slowed over the next few years with Joann’s declining health. In 2006, the CCDR Board of Directors decided to gift the materials to an institution where the materials would promote curricular and programmatic integration.
The choice of Arizona State University Department of Dance, under the administrative leadership of Dr. Pegge Vissicaro, a pioneer of cross-cultural dance education, was the logical place to relocate the CCDR Collections as it was known at that time.
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At CCDR we are dedicated to honoring the many significant contributors and events that have influenced the organization through detailed documentation. We look forward to sharing these expanded records that broaden understanding about the vital impact of CCDR and its Collections on the history, presence, and future of dance culture scholarship.
