The century of the dance (2019) With this exhibition from 24 August to 21 September 2019 under the motto “Was der Körper erinnert. Zur Aktualität des Tanzerbes” (English: What the body remembers – The relevance of the dance heritage), an attempt was made at the Academy of Arts in Berlin to build a bridge between the tradition of modern dance in Germany, which already spans more than a hundred years, and contemporary dance practice on the basis of selected collections from the dance archives. A showcase on the Tanzarchiv As part of a seminar by Dr Melanie Gruß on the
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The collection is on permanent loan from the Federal Archives Potsdam and includes materials from the ensemble’s scientific documentation centre, which served the choreographers in preparing the dances (e.g. materials on geography and history, dance forms/families, methods, folk dances as well as tapes, photos and newspaper articles). The ensemble emerged from the State Song and Dance Ensemble, the successor to the National Cultural Group of the Free German Youth founded on 1 April 1950. In 1952, the dance ensemble was integrated into the Berlin Volksbühne. When the choir was dissolved in 1962, it was renamed the “State Dance Ensemble of
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The Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. association, in cooperation with the Institute of Theatre Studies and the Leipzig University Library, promotes the accessibility and research of the Tanzarchiv’s collection holdings. With events, publications, and artistic projects, the work of the association aims in particular at the public communication of the collections as well as the topics and questions connected with them in various contexts. The cultural heritage of dance in Germany is distributed among many memorial institutions, archives and collections, most of which are united in the Association of German Dance Archives where they also pursue joint projects. Applications for membership and
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