Since 1997, the society’s founding members have been working throughout Greece, researching, recording and collecting forgotten dances, live recordings, unknown musical documentation, radio and TV programs, old publications, rare anecdotal folk material, photographs, prints, newspapers, witness accounts and so on.
Unknown records have been discovered which, together with the member’s personal archives and those of co-operating sectors, supplement the work of research teams as well as the society’s archive material, which now consists of an extensive collection of documents.
The contact dance and culture has with new scientific approaches and the delving into new technologies through participation in the international forum, contributes to improving the electronic infrastructure and leads to an increasing number of useful applications of the archives.
In this sector progress is being made with regard to co-operation with scientists both from Greece and abroad, and dialogue is growing concerning the exchange of ideas, experience, tools and methods, alternative records, categorization and classification- all of which leads to improving flexibility of access and maximization of the practical usefulness of the specific material |