Documentation is complex but necessary for work to survive.
There are archives in place once you have managed to document your work. As with all artists, you need someone you trust, knowledgeable about dance, to care specifically for your art. Perhaps the most extensive repository for scores, film, video and audio tapes, clipping files, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, memorabilia and all types of notation related to dance is the Dance Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Dance Collection also produces oral histories for people with AIDS in the dance world. This oral history program also has a counterpart in San Francisco called the Legacy Project.