Emma Metcalfe Hurst

Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story

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Fall 2021 – Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story is an archival research and oral history project produced by Karen Jamieson Dance that recounts that looks back at the early collaborative work Coming Out of Chaos (1982) to tell a story of the emergence of contemporary dance in Vancouver. I had the opportunity to interview 17 established and mid-career contemporary dancers, choreographers, administrators, dance historians and critics, as well as six of the original Coming Out of Chaos collaborators. The…read more

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Acts of Transfer: Performance Art in the Western Front Archive

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Spring 2018 – Acts of Transfer: Performance Art in the Western Front Archive Acts of Transfer: Performance Art in the Western Front Archive is a web-based archival project that I developed for a newly digitized A/V collection of performance art by women-identifying artists at the Western Front from 1975-2006. I conducted a rigorous permissions process by contacting artists directly, documenting how (and if) they want their work presented online, and offering them copies of their digitized works. The final product materialized as an interactive media timeline that hosted 65 newly…read more

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British Columbia: An Untold History (documentary film series)

Posted by emmamh in Archives, Film, Media

2018-2020 – Archival Researcher/Intern for British Columbia – A History, a documentary film series produced by 1871 Productions for Knowledge Network. Supported by Screen Siren Pictures and Mitacs. Assisted with historical research and story development for 150+ stories for the project pitch to Knowledge Network in pre-production. Reported regularly to the writing and production team and provided research results. Assisted with the development of workflows and metadata standards for the internal database, following Dublin Core metadata standards. Performed extensive research, outreach, consultation, and metadata entry to gather more than 10,000…read more

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Karen Jamieson Dance

Posted by emmamh in Archives, Performing arts, Podcast

Summer 2020-Present – Dance Archivist for Karen Jamieson Dance (Co-op Work Experience) Assisted with metadata creation for 28 digital assets to be ingested into Arca. Spearheaded the implementation of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels for 7 items in collaboration with Indigenous creators (ongoing). Implemented archival storage for photographic materials from the KJD archives. Organized materials into 5 binders with descriptive information for access and preservation (ongoing). Assisted with archival research, requests, and digitization for the production of the film “Body to Land: Stone Soup” (forthcoming in 2021). Created an inventory for…read more

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