The Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s most recent Annual Report FY 2014 is now online on the Library’s website. The Dance Division has continued its work, assuring its place in the world, as a global, international archive, the world's largest of its kind dedicated to dance, by collecting, preserving and making accessible materials about the many varieties of dance in the world. Among the varieties of work accomplished this year, we finalized our new Digital Collections Dance Video site making videos available in the Library and on the web. 

The Library finished processing the papers of the Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, making available to the public 34 boxes under the title, Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive, 1960-2010. This section of the Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive holds awards, choreographer files, contracts, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs, scripts, and other materials documenting Baryshnikov's 40-plus year career, a career that is ongoing. The Archive contains video spanning much of Baryshnikov’s career, from when he was ten years old to performances and rehearsals that include collaborations with choreographers such as George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Merce Cunningham. There are now 375 titles available for viewing at the Library.

The Dance Division has continued to process and catalog recently added collections. With funding from the Merce Cunningham Trust to support the processing of the Merce Cunningham Archive, the materials now available of the Merce Cunningham Archive are nearly 400 boxes of papers, 22 boxes of choreographic notes and nearly 600 videos available, many digitized. 

New Collections added include two collections donated by Jacques d’Amboise with over 500 videotapes from National Dance Institute and the photographs of his late wife Carolyn George.  Additionally, 43 Dance Division manuscript collections, totaling 267 linear feet, were processed and are open for research.

The Dance Division has continued its outreach in many areas including with the African Dance interview project with funding from Mertz Gilmore Foundation. The project is to videotape five interviews with traditional dancers, teachers, and choreographers of the African diaspora in New York City for inclusion in our archive, and to form an African Dance Advisory Group. This Advisory Group is to comprise experienced professionals with expertise in multiple aspects of African Dance culture in New York City, including dancers, choreographers, company directors, educators, visual artists, writers, historians, storytellers, entrepreneurs, and presenters. Carolyn Webb was hired as Project Director on May 19, 2014. Within a month of her hire, the first meeting of the African Dance Advisory Group was held on June 16, 2014.