ARCHIVING DANCE
I understand archives to perform a function of social sharing of memory that contributes to building social bonds, community and identity. This potential resides in the capacity of the contemporary approach of archiving to bring together an archival function, concerned with memory preservation and transmission, with a present-bound artistic, performative and creative function.
How can digital archives for cultural heritage become social resources, facilitate social change, create cultural awareness and foster collective collaboration?
So far, the predominant practice of archiving performing arts (dance) has been based on capturing the final product (video, reviews, programs, of the performance) Vs extensive documentation of the process that leads to production.
How can we start thinking of capturing the process?
What are the archiving practices of artists in contemporary dance?
What are the new forms of digital archiving?
Living archives refer to practices and environments that connect the organisation, curation and transmission of memory with present-bound creative, performative, and participatory processes. Recent trends in the democratisation of arts and cultural heritage and the advent of digital media have provided living archives with new creative valences, making them potent means for the performative celebration of the past through contemporary acts of creation and transmission.
Amalia G. Sabiescu
Archive#1
MICHAELDOUGLAS KOLLEKTIV | 2009 – 2023
PERSPECTIVE SHIFT
SHIFTING SYSTEMS
HIVEMIND
GET-TOGETHER
THE POLARITY PARTY
WIR WOLLEN VERSCHWINDEN
ZAURAK
THE EXCHANGE
TELLING STORIES
Archive#2
COCOONDANCE COMPANY | 2014 – TODAY
CHORA
GHOST TRIO A
STANDARD
DREAM CITY
VIS MOTRIX
RUNTHROUGH meetings I-IV
BODY SHOTS
WE ARE SPACE
HYBRIDITY
MOMENTUM
Archive#3
ANGIE HIESL + ROLAND KAISER | 2014 – TODAY
FORKS IN THE CITY
FAT FACTS
UNFASSBAR KÖLN
ID CLASH Focusing on Hirjas
[in] VISIBLE – [un] SICHTBAR
AQUAMARIN.40213
Archive#4
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY DANCE COLOGNE | 2010 – TODAY
UNFOLDED no 12
IMPACT ZONE 23
SOLO EDITION 23
(N)ON SITE BODIES
UNFOLDED no 11
IMPACT ZONE 21
IMPACTZONE 22
GOLBAL WATER DANCES
Archive#5
NRW LANDESBÜRO TANZ | 2014 – TODAY
DYNAMO FESTIVAL 2020
DYNAMO 2016 DOCUMENTATION
DYNAMO SPEZIAL
FESTIVAL TANZ NRW 21
2019_180° DREHUNG
DYNAMO 2020 DER FILM
Archive#6
DANCE THEATRE HEIDELBERG | 2017 – 2021
OSCILLATION
MOMENTUM
DIMENSION
BECOMING
IMPRESSION
THE INHABITANTS
FORMS OF TOGETHERNESS
Archive#7
ON-GOING COLLABORATIONS
ANTJE VELSINGER / THEIR FUTURE
DANGEROUS GUESTS
YIBU DANCE / WHIRLING LADDER | UPRIGHT
NUTROSPEKTIV / MOMENT(URB)AN
KATHARINA STENZENBERGER / SOLID LIQUID
MARTINA DE DOMINICIS / YET TO BE BORN
BALLETT THEATER PFORZHEIM / 45
ENIS TURAN / CLUB 27
SAGI GROSS / RECYCLING EMOTIONS
JONE SAN MARTIN / ON THE RELATION BETWEEN SIGN LANGUAGE AND CHOREOGRAPHY
MOOVY FESTIVAL 2024
ZHDK | BA CONTEMPORARY DANCE
URSINA TOSSI / FUX
TANZ.KOELN TANZGASTSPIELE
ZWOISY MEARS-CLARKE / GENEIGTER
SAMUEL GILOWITZ | MONO NO AWARE
PFORZHEIM THEATER / BEING HUMAN
ARCHIVING DANCE
I understand archives to perform a function of social sharing of memory that contributes to building social bonds, community and identity. This potential resides in the capacity of the contemporary approach of archiving to bring together an archival function, concerned with memory preservation and transmission, with a present-bound artistic, performative and creative function.
How can digital archives for cultural heritage become social resources, facilitate social change, create cultural awareness and foster collective collaboration?
So far, the predominant practice of archiving performing arts (dance) has been based on capturing the final product (video, reviews, programs, of the performance) Vs extensive documentation of the process that leads to production.
How can we start thinking of capturing the process?
What are the archiving practices of artists in contemporary dance?
What are the new forms of digital archiving?
Living archives refer to practices and environments that connect the organisation, curation and transmission of memory with present-bound creative, performative, and participatory processes. Recent trends in the democratisation of arts and cultural heritage and the advent of digital media have provided living archives with new creative valences, making them potent means for the performative celebration of the past through contemporary acts of creation and transmission.
Amalia G. Sabiescu
Archive#1
MICHAELDOUGLAS KOLLEKTIV | 2009 – 2023
PERSPECTIVE SHIFT
SHIFTING SYSTEMS
HIVEMIND
GET-TOGETHER
THE POLARITY PARTY
WIR WOLLEN VERSCHWINDEN
ZAURAK
THE EXCHANGE
TELLING STORIES
Archive#2
COCOONDANCE COMPANY | 2014 – TODAY
CHORA
GHOST TRIO A
STANDARD
DREAM CITY
VIS MOTRIX
RUNTHROUGH meetings I-IV
BODY SHOTS
WE ARE SPACE
HYBRIDITY
MOMENTUM
Archive#3
ANGIE HIESL + ROLAND KAISER | 2014 – TODAY
FORKS IN THE CITY
FAT FACTS
UNFASSBAR KÖLN
ID CLASH Focusing on Hirjas
[in] VISIBLE – [un] SICHTBAR
AQUAMARIN.40213
Archive#4
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY DANCE COLOGNE | 2010 – TODAY
UNFOLDED no 12
IMPACT ZONE 23
SOLO EDITION 23
(N)ON SITE BODIES
UNFOLDED no 11
IMPACT ZONE 21
IMPACTZONE 22
GOLBAL WATER DANCES
Archive#5
NRW LANDESBÜRO TANZ | 2014 – TODAY
DYNAMO FESTIVAL 2020
DYNAMO 2016 DOCUMENTATION
DYNAMO SPEZIAL
FESTIVAL TANZ NRW 21
2019_180° DREHUNG
DYNAMO 2020 DER FILM
Archive#6
DANCE THEATRE HEIDELBERG | 2017 – 2021
OSCILLATION
MOMENTUM
DIMENSION
BECOMING
IMPRESSION
THE INHABITANTS
FORMS OF TOGETHERNESS
Archive#7
ON-GOING COLLABORATIONS
ANTJE VELSINGER / THEIR FUTURE
DANGEROUS GUESTS
YIBU DANCE / WHIRLING LADDER | UPRIGHT
NUTROSPEKTIV / MOMENT(URB)AN
KATHARINA STENZENBERGER / SOLID LIQUID
MARTINA DE DOMINICIS / YET TO BE BORN
BALLETT THEATER PFORZHEIM / 45
ENIS TURAN / CLUB 27
SAGI GROSS / RECYCLING EMOTIONS
JONE SAN MARTIN / ON THE RELATION BETWEEN SIGN LANGUAGE AND CHOREOGRAPHY
MOOVY FESTIVAL 2024
ZHDK | BA CONTEMPORARY DANCE
URSINA TOSSI / FUX
TANZ.KOELN TANZGASTSPIELE
ZWOISY MEARS-CLARKE / GENEIGTER
SAMUEL GILOWITZ | MONO NO AWARE
PFORZHEIM THEATER / BEING HUMAN