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The following paper is adapted from a talk given at a meeting of the National Initiative to Preserve America’s Dance (NIPAD) as part of Dance/USA’s tenth biennial national meeting, Miami, Florida 19-20 June 2002. Designed and implemented by Andrea Snyder, NIPAD was funded in 1993 by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the 2002 Dance/USA Roundtable marked the end of the Trusts’ initiative. (Snyder has been the head of Dance/USA since 2000.) In its nine years of operation, NIPAD awarded grants to more than fifty projects designed to preserve and document dance in America. In addition to the Roundtable, several publications commemorated the initiative’s efforts, including Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, ed. Judy Mitoma, Elizabeth Zimmer, and Dale Ann Stieber (Routledge, 2003). Godfrey’s audience consisted of performers, archivists, filmmakers, and other dance practitioners, many of whom were NIPAD grantees.