Overview of the collections

In addition to a wide range of books and periodicals, the collections include numerous photographs, films, videotapes, DVDs, and sound recordings, as well as a large collection of programmes and posters and individual estates and bequests containing a wide variety of documents and media.

The internationally prominent personal collections include: the estate of the dance revolutionary Rudolf von Laban (until his exile in 1938); partial collections on Mary Wigman and Gret Palucca; photos, documents, and masks of the “red” dancer and choreographer Jean Weidt; the estates of the dance teachers Jenny Gertz and Ilse Loesch; and the estate of the choreographer Uwe Scholz who worked at the Leipzig Ballet. Short descriptions of these and other holdings can be found here.

The holdings of the dance archive are located in the Leipzig University Library (Albertina main building, Beethovenstraße 6, 04107 Leipzig), where they can be accessed as part of the special collections in the dedicated research reading room on the 4th floor by appointment.