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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A large number of meetings, symposia and conferences have already been organised for the exchange of specialist topics, questions and methods based on the holdings of Tanzarchiv Leipzig, which have always addressed the public interested in dance with special programme items and whose results are usually documented in publications. Dance in pictures – Plural constellations of Photography Virtual video conference from 28 – 30 January 2021 Perspectives of Digital Humanities in Dance and Theatre ResearchOnline workshop on 9 January 2021 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Body/Politics: Dance forms, institutions and actors in the GDR (13 – 15 November 2014)
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Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. staff and members are available to advise on artistic projects, from initial ideas for dealing with the cultural heritage of dance to concrete enquiries about more complex research and possible academic advice and dramaturgical support for dance productions. Please send your enquiries about such offers up to project-related cooperations by e-mail to the following address: info@tanzarchiv-leipzig.de. Below you will find some exemplary projects from recent years in which individual members of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. were more or less directly involved or which were created in cooperation with TAL e.V.. Tanz Digital (2021) Evaluation of the Alliance
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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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After studying musicology, Petermann came to the Central House of Culture, where he was initially tasked with setting up a department for folk dance. This eventually developed through his dedicated collecting and research activities into the Tanzarchiv Leipzig. Thus, Petermann’s estate also reveals the history of the Tanzarchiv. His correspondence with the Central House for Folk Art, the Academy of Arts as well as dancers and dance institutions in Germany and abroad testifies to his important role in the political-cultural life of the GDR. The Petermann collection also provides insights into a creative, restless personality who was always developing new
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The German dancer and dance teacher Ilse Loesch was a student of Rudolf von Laban and also worked with Jenny Gertz. In her pedagogical work with disabled people, movement choirs, young people, drama students and children, she tried to educate people holistically through dance and movement and to promote their personal development. In her book Mit Leib und Seele. Erlebte Vergangenheit des Ausdruckstanzes (Berlin 1990), Gertz impressively describes her experience as a movement teacher and committed propagandist of expressive dance. The extensive collection contains materials on amateur dance for dance training, stage practice, dance art, movement and dance research, notations,
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The German dance critic and theorist Fritz Böhme studied literature and art history in Berlin. As department head of the arts section of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, he published his dance reviews almost daily for years from 1919 onwards. In the Weimar Republic, Böhme was a driving force behind the establishment of dance congresses, dance journals and dance teaching forums. His main goal was the creation of a national dance academy and a national archive for dance history. His estate contains materials on the dance scene of his time: essays, manuscripts and lectures, Böhme’s correspondence, documents on contemporary dancer personalities,
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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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