A talk between Barbara Lubich and Christoph Winkler
Christoph Winkler and Barbara Lubich talk about East German dance history, which the choreographer experienced first hand and which the filmmaker portrays retrospectively in her works.
A talk between Pol Pi and Martin Nachbar
Martin Nachbar and Pol Pi discuss their collaboration on Dore Hoyer’s dance cycle “Afectos Humanos“ (1962) and the archival practice of passing on dance through generations.
On the Archive – A Doorway to Pleasure, Complexity and Other Possible Worlds
by Sasha Amaya // The dancer and choreographer Sasha Amaya reflects on her personal and artistic approach to the themes of canon and archive and writes about her work in which she explores European art history in a contemporary context.
Dusty Stories and Subcultural Memory
by Olympia Bukkakis // Based on personal memories, performance artist and choreographer Olympia Bukkakis writes about stories of the past and subcultural memory.
Narrating dance
by Isabel Raabe // Curator and cultural producer Isabel Raabe reports on the dance section of the pioneering project RomArchive – Digital Archive of the Roma, and wonders whether dance as a body-based and ephemeral art form can be archived at all.
Re-Visions: Body archives and archival bodies in motion
by Julia Wehren // How can bodies be thought of as archives? Dance scholar Julia Wehren writes about embodied knowledge and about the archive as a figure of thought in which bodies are read in terms of their ‘deposits’.
Discourse on the canon – or: Why ghosts that dance don’t survive in canned goods – maybe.
by Mariama Diagne // Based on the Ghanaian dwarf, a figure of ‘transgression’, dance scholar Mariama Diagne reflects on the canon and canned goods, and on the connection between colonial cultural practices and the emergence of European archives.