From a studio in S10, Sheffield, Memory Dance digitises audiovisual collections, and offers consultancy services
With over 15 years experience (7 of which was at the British Library Sound and Vision Archive) Memory Dance has built a professional video transfer studio in Sheffield and works with artists, filmmakers, galleries, and museums in rebooting analogue and early digital tape formats back to life.
Tapes to have passed through the machines includes the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Brian Eno personal video archive, Picture Palace North, The Tuesday Club collection, and Bridgeman Images. No project is too big or small.
Memory Dance also offers consultancy and guidance (and informal, enthusiastic chats !) about digitisation strategy, collections policy, digital preservation, cataloguing, clearing rights for commercial use, moving image handling, care, and conservation methods. Clients have included The National Jazz Archive, English Folk, Dance, Song Society (EFDSS), The National Coal Mining Museum, Sheffield Hallam University, and all manner of filmmakers and artists.