Archiving Dance in a Box: A Conversation about Legacies of Dance with Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako Nakajima

Please join us for a conversation about how to preserve and transmit the histories and legacies of dance, with Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako Nakajima. Drawing on the research and performative processes of the cross cultural project “Dance Archive Box Berlin,” the conversation will address questions of archiving and re-creating dance through the traces and fragments of its archived remains: how can we read the objects and documents of dance, its fragmentary costumes and incomplete notations? What are the modalities for re-interpreting these legacies within another cultural context? Can this process of translating reanimate and revitalize dance from an “archive box” that is located between Asia and Europe? And what can we learn about the legacy of archives as mobile institutions?