Where do we go from here?

Since autumn 2020, the project group TanzArchiv Berlin has been working to initiate an open historiography of dance and to make the artistic and social contexts of the city visible. Our goal is to create a space for research, production, and exchange between dance professionals and audiences in Berlin.

We aim to collect, make accessible, and connect documented and archived choreographic knowledge and materials, bringing together as many partners and resources as possible.

In early 2025, we learned that funding for the further development and expansion of TanzArchiv Berlin had been cut.
What now?
We are doing everything we can to preserve the work of the past five years and to keep it accessible via our website: www.tanzarchiv-berlin.de.

Still, our central demand remains: Berlin needs a permanent space for the archiving of dance – a place for critical reflection on topics such as dance and archives, canon, documentation, historiography, transmission, narration, and the gaps that come with them – approached from intersectional perspectives.

This is also why we were curious to learn more about DanceMap, a European model project (2025–2027) initiated by Bureau Ritter, which aims to create an international mapping of dance archives.

On December 16, 2024, Claudia Feest took the opportunity to discuss this with Madeline Ritter (Bureau Ritter) and Ty Boomershine (Dance On).