{"value"=>"<p>This series contains programs, photographs, posters, financial and administrative documents, and teaching materials for Valley Dance Ensemble, dated 1980 to 2001. The series is organized into three sub-series and arranged alphabetically.</p> <p>Administrative Files primarily holds financial papers related to Valley Dance Ensemble, such as grant paperwork, fundraising documents, and income and expense reports for each fiscal year. These reports detail the financial aspects of running a community dance company, with costume, publicity, and event costs represented. Andersen's work in the establishment of the company is documented in Board of Directors minutes and founding materials, such as the company's mission statement and multiple revisions of the Artistic Director's job description.</p> <p>Programs, reviews, and posters for dance concerts are housed in the Performance Files, spanning Andersen's tenure with Valley Dance Ensemble from its first performance to her final staging of <span class=\"title\">Suspension</span> in 2001. This sub-series also covers guest artists who collaborated with the company, including Terry Heller and Morris Johnson. Andersen's notes on administrative and publicity tasks associated with each concert are stored together in the Concerts folders.</p> <p>The role of the Valley Dance Ensemble as a dance school is explored in the Teaching Files, with promotional brochures, quarterly class schedules, instructor biographies, and class goals and descriptions. Andersen's class materials, gathered early in the founding of the company and school, contain her notes used to lead class sessions, and ledgers show the size and growth of the school into the early 1990s.</p>"}