Legacy Library is a new initiative of the PSDF Archive focused on preserving and curating audio and video from the 1920’s through the 1950’s and beyond. In collaboration with Nick Williams, our first effort focuses on digitizing and preserving Nick’s extensive personal collection of video clips collected over decades.
Legacy Library is a new initiative of the PSDF Archive specifically focused on preserving and curating audio and video from the 1920’s through the 1950’s and beyond, and includes dances such as Lindy Hop, Balboa, Charleston, Swing, Collegiate Shag, and Vernacular Jazz. The video collection draws from films, soundies, home videos, dance events, and rare private lesson footage. In collaboration with Nick Williams, our first effort focuses on digitizing and preserving Nick’s extensive personal collection of video clips collected over decades.
The Legacy Library is dedicated to preserving the history of our beloved swing dances and honoring the legends of those individuals who shaped them. It is also intended to serve as an educational resource for the historical and ongoing cultural impact of both the swing dances and the dancers who brought them to life.
Best of all, the PSDF Legacy Library will be accessible to all!
We have ambitious goals and need the financial support of the community to realize them. Donated funds will be used to secure the expertise of archivists, historians, editors, and film transfer specialists to create and curate the Library. Wherever possible PSDF intends to contract with professionals from within the greater swing dance community in order to continue investing in our collective future.
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Thank you for supporting the Legacy Library!
Sponsor a Tape!
Supporters at or above the $500 level will have the option to choose a specific tape to sponsor from among Nick Williams’ collection and to join Legacy Clip Geeks — a group for nerds who like to geek out about clips.
- Sponsors at or above $500 will have the option to choose a tape to sponsor. Sponsoring a tape helps pay for that tape to be digitized, catalogued, and curated.
- Sponsors will be given their choice of tape on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Tape sponsors will receive sponsorship credit for the clips contained on “their” tape and in the Pacific Swing Dance Archive.
This is what I can give now but will give more in the future. I love what you are doing and I can’t wait to see what you do more. Thank you for making a record of ACTUAL history of this Black American artform.
It is an honor to support this legacy.
It is an honor to be able to support preserving the knowledge and contributions of this legacy. Thank you, Nick Williams. Thank you, Jason.
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to preserving the legacy of dance in our precious community!
This means so much to the community worldwide. Thank you for putting in so much effort and heart to preserve the legacy so that we can all benefit and grow together.
From Jake and Andrea. Can’t wait to see the old clips! Thanks for the work you do!
If you know what you’ve come from, you’ll always know what you are
Thank you to Nick Williams and the Pacific Swing Dance Foundation for keeping our swing history alive and thriving!
Keep this history moving forward!!
The history of the swing dance community is a deep source of inspiration for current and future generations of swing dancers. Thanks for your hard work in making this treasure trove of knowledge available to everyone!
The history of the swing dance community is a source of so much inspiration for current and future generations of dancers. Thanks for taking on this important work and making the treasure trove of knowledge available to everyone!
Lindy hop is pure unfiltered joy! Thank you for keeping history alive!
This history must be preserved and passed on.
Keep these clips alive, the future of dance needs and deserves it! <3
Thank u Nick and Sylvia! Can’t wait to view and learn! Hope u don’t need to pull out a lightsaber to reach the goal lol.