NEWS: Dance Histories in Practice
Seminar on Archiving and Historicization of Dance

Dance Histories in Practice
Seminar on Archiving and Historicization of Dance

28 November 2023: CoFestival
Ljubljana

Photo: Rok Vevar

In partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, with which Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia has been creating the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archives since 2018, we organised the seminar Dance Histories in Practice – Selected Aspects of Archiving and Historicization of Dance. This seminar aimed to share good practices, standardized and innovative methodologies, and approaches to dance archiving with our collaborators, as well as various multi- and trans-disciplinary derivatives through which archival documentation was historicized, recorded, and transformed (covering visible and invisible aspects of dance work from the studio to education and completed stage works). The seminar sought to address dance works, problems, issues, and solutions that dance archiving and historicizing confront us with, focusing on their temporal and material aspects. At the seminar, we shared our internal working problems and evolving decisions with the public, opening up our work to further questions.

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