The library is comprehensive in scope and collects material about all cultures in all languages. The Project later expanded to include interviews with a wider range of veteran dancers and choreographers whose careers had reached maturity. As AIDS shortened the careers of many of our younger artists, the focus of the Project shifted to include them. Interviewees are informally nominated to the Project Coordinator by members of the dance community. Often artists who wish to be interviewed have contacted the Coordinator themselves.
All interviews are confidential until they are released by the oral author.
The Project is based in New York, but interviews in other areas can be arranged, often by cooperatively identifying a local interviewer. Oral history tapes are made available to researchers at the Dance Collection. Transcripts are created for interviews produced by the Project. Individual authors may place restrictions on public access to their interview for a specified period of time. Tapes and transcripts may not be copied without the written permission of the oral author or their designated legal representative.