Dance research

Through an open call, the 2021 steering committee invited ten artists to develop their perspectives on the archiving of and in dance.

The research results were presented and discussed at regular meetings. In April 2022, the symposium Sensing the archive/s. Sketching the archive/s concluded this research project. In lectures and discussion rounds, the participants discussed questions of archival practice, of strategies for dance archives and dance archiving, of building and transferring knowledge and of canon and periphery.

In cooperation with the Master’s program in Dance Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, several students also created installations and live performances on the subject of dance and the archive.