Events > Exhibitions
Searching for new methods and experimental work practices regarding the generation of knowledge outside of written culture Prof. Dr. Inge Baxmann focussed on the parisian „Archives Internationales de la Danse“ (A.I.D), which was founded by Rolf de Maré. This was done in cooperation with the Bibliothèque-musée de l’Opéra in Paris and the Centre nationale de la Danse in Paris/Pantin. Until 1940 the A.I.D was an international gathering place of emigrated dancers, dance and culture scholars and ethnologists. Connecting non-european dance practice and european folk dance with modern styles and a focus on theory and history the A.I.D. is working on the recovery of bodily knowledge while overlapping academic knowledge systems. An accompanying conference took place between the 28.03.–02.04.2006 in Paris.
In the westwing of the Schaubühne Lindenfels and its former office (Ritterstraße 9-13) the Tanzarchive Leipzig was celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition called mitArbeit. Lebensrhythmen im Wandel. Taking on an artistic as well as an everyday perspective it highlighted the changes of our rhythm and way of life caused by a change in our ways of work. It featured temporary artistic works by Tehching Hsieh (New York), Pia Lanzinger (München), Marion von Osten (Wien), Diana Wesser (Leipzig) and the bureau for integrative art (Berlin) as well as unique material from legacies and collections from Tanzarchiv Leipzig (Rudolf von Laban, Jean Weidt, Fritz Böhme, Ilse Loesch u.a.).
Those formed the base of discussion when talking about current problems in work and life. The focus was the city of Leipzig and the changes in the former industrial district Plagwitz, where these changes are particularly distinct.
Events > Meetings/Conferences
From the 27.-29. of october 2005 the Tanzarchiv Leipzig hostet the international workshop “Folklore Revisited: Körperwissen und konstruierte Gemeinschaft” / „Body Knowledge and Constructed Community“. The goal of “Folklore Revisited” was to establish the term folklore from a new point of view, the relation of community, modernity and embodied knowledge rather than just the maintenance of tradition. Folklore as a culture of movement gets a different treatment: as a constitutive and exemplary part of constructing community from the 19th century onwards.
The conference united contributions of artistic as well as academic practice, forming a shared interface between art and science, production and reception of bodies and knowledge.
Thereby it asked questions regarding the role of the body and emotions in the construction of epistemology and methods, as well as researching the affinities between the thought strategies of art, science and the humanities. The conference debated the importance of movement cultures within the modern knowledge models – this debate manifested also in the publication of the conference „Deutungsräume. Bewegungswissen als kulturelles Archiv der Moderne“.
„Moving Thoughts – Tanzen ist Denken“ was the title of the internationally acclaimed conference taking place from the 1.- 3. of december 2000 in Leipzig. The Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. invited participants together with the Leipziger Off-Theatre (LOFFT e.V.) to think about dance, because: Dancing is Thinking! The conference is documented in a publication with the same title.
In the summer term of 2003 and the winter term 2003/2004 this event series focussed on famous choreographers of the 20th century, leading through 100 years of dance history by presenting and discussing selected choreographers and showing their works, which are influential to the stage history of the century.
From 1999 to 2001 the Tanzarchiv Leipzig held events every wednesday, tackling different topics such as „Tanz und Architektur“ (SS 2001), „KunstKörperMann“ (WS 2000/01), „Salome – Frauengestalt und Frauengestaltung“ (SS 2000), „Begehrte Körper“ (WS 1999/2000) and „Varietétänzerinnen um 1900“. For these events different experts from the fields of dance science, art. journalism and choreography were invited for talks, including Isa Wortelkamp, Kerstin Evert and Bernd Sikora.