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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One of Mary Wigman’s most famous students was Gret Palucca, who soon achieved a similar level of fame as a solo dancer and also established her own school in Dresden in 1925. After the Second World War, she was able to re-found and expand her school and educate generations of dancers – despite constant conflicts with cultural functionaries of the GDR – not only physically but also spiritually and artistically to creativity and independence. As a founding member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, she was its vice-president from 1965-1970, which is why Palucca’s actual estate is in
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Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig FID Darstellende Kunst CCT Centre of Competence for Theatre VDT Verbund deutscher Tanzarchive Dachverband Tanz AG ARCHIV der gtw Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft GTF Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung THESID Theatersammlungen in Deutschland NFDI4Culture LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig Schauspiel Leipzig Schaubühne Lindenfels Leipzig Leipziger Ballett Villa Wigman e.V. Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau Tanznetz Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Netzwerk Tanz- und Bewegungswissenschaft Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln Akademie der Künste, Berlin Deutsches Tanzfilminstitut Bremen Pina Bausch Archiv Folkwang Tanzarchiv Derra de Moroda Dance Archives, Salzburg Bibliothèque de l’Opera, Paris Centre
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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
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