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WiSe 19/20: Dance Archive Box Berlin
Nanako Nakajima
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Nur für Studierende im MA-Studiengang Tanzwissenschaft
In this course, I will develop a Berlin version of the Dance Archive Box, a contemporary dance archive project from Japan and Singapore. In this previous project, seven contemporary dance makers from Japan archived their works through their respective methods, each creating an archive box and handing it to another artist from other backgrounds for re-performance. This time, students from Berlin receive these Archive Boxes transported from Japan to see how the Dance Archive Box would function when used for recreation.
In the field of Japanese contemporary dance, which had been emancipated from the familial relationship that governed the Japanese system of passing on an art tradition, the project was a way of posing the following questions: How is it possible to separate a dance from the communal histories of the dance maker and to produce an Archive Box as creative common ground for all people? What does it mean to share a dance without sharing the time with the dance makers themselves? How do we reconstruct whose histories for whom?
This project was initially proposed by Ong Ken Sen, a theater director from Singapore, and conceived by me as a dramaturg and other critics and artists together with the Saison Foundation since 2014. The Dance Archive Box project was launched in collaboration with contemporary dance makers in Japan and transported to dance artists in Asia and Pacific as part of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) in 2015 as well as to traditional Japanese dancers from the Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM) in 2016.
This project of archiving contemporary Japanese dance involves several discourses concerning dance archiving. Here, the process of archiving deals not only with materials but also with the requirement of other artists to perform archived dance using an Archive Box, formed of collections of materials and texts chosen by the artist, and to literally “restore” them in one box as a source of reperformance. What kind of information is necessary when reconstructing a dance? What aspects of dance in the past should be passed on as an archive for the future?
The state of contemporary dance in Japan is comprised of independent artists who have searched for their own physical expressions, as well as their own technique. These dance makers came from the various backgrounds of Butoh, modern dance and ballet, and have enjoyed acclaim since the late 1980s. While these contemporary dance artists have marked a heroic period of dance in Asia during the Japan’s bubble economy, most of them are not often introduced outside of the region.
An Archive Box enables the recipient to inherit the first dance without any encounter with its dance maker. The objective of the course would be to explore how the archived first contemporary dance from Japan in the form of boxes are developed to the recipient of the boxes as user in Berlin. During the winter semester 2019/2020, students take on the role of a user to receive Archive Boxes to see how the Archive Box would function when used for recreation. Without meeting the original artists, how do we make our own response to the history of Archive Boxes?
In the final presentation at Academy of the Arts, students are to present their performative responses as a user to some Archive Boxes, or to work dramaturgs to support other users. They respond to Archive Boxes in the context of contemporary Berlin, incorporating stored graphics, costumes, and sounds, or just only one letter. Some of the artists who are previously engaged in the process of Dance Archive Box may be also present for the dialogue at the final presentation. Schließen
In this course, I will develop a Berlin version of the Dance Archive Box, a contemporary dance archive project from Japan and Singapore. In this previous project, seven contemporary dance makers from Japan archived their works through their respective methods, each creating an archive box and handing it to another artist from other backgrounds for re-performance. This time, students from Berlin receive these Archive Boxes transported from Japan to see how the Dance Archive Box would function when used for recreation.
In the field of Japanese contemporary dance, which had been emancipated from the familial relationship that governed the Japanese system of passing on an art tradition, the project was a way of posing the following questions: How is it possible to separate a dance from the communal histories of the dance maker and to produce an Archive Box as creative common ground for all people? What does it mean to share a dance without sharing the time with the dance makers themselves? How do we reconstruct whose histories for whom?
This project was initially proposed by Ong Ken Sen, a theater director from Singapore, and conceived by me as a dramaturg and other critics and artists together with the Saison Foundation since 2014. The Dance Archive Box project was launched in collaboration with contemporary dance makers in Japan and transported to dance artists in Asia and Pacific as part of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) in 2015 as well as to traditional Japanese dancers from the Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM) in 2016.
This project of archiving contemporary Japanese dance involves several discourses concerning dance archiving. Here, the process of archiving deals not only with materials but also with the requirement of other artists to perform archived dance using an Archive Box, formed of collections of materials and texts chosen by the artist, and to literally “restore” them in one box as a source of reperformance. What kind of information is necessary when reconstructing a dance? What aspects of dance in the past should be passed on as an archive for the future?
The state of contemporary dance in Japan is comprised of independent artists who have searched for their own physical expressions, as well as their own technique. These dance makers came from the various backgrounds of Butoh, modern dance and ballet, and have enjoyed acclaim since the late 1980s. While these contemporary dance artists have marked a heroic period of dance in Asia during the Japan’s bubble economy, most of them are not often introduced outside of the region.
An Archive Box enables the recipient to inherit the first dance without any encounter with its dance maker. The objective of the course would be to explore how the archived first contemporary dance from Japan in the form of boxes are developed to the recipient of the boxes as user in Berlin. During the winter semester 2019/2020, students take on the role of a user to receive Archive Boxes to see how the Archive Box would function when used for recreation. Without meeting the original artists, how do we make our own response to the history of Archive Boxes?
In the final presentation at Academy of the Arts, students are to present their performative responses as a user to some Archive Boxes, or to work dramaturgs to support other users. They respond to Archive Boxes in the context of contemporary Berlin, incorporating stored graphics, costumes, and sounds, or just only one letter. Some of the artists who are previously engaged in the process of Dance Archive Box may be also present for the dialogue at the final presentation. Schließen
18 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Fr, 25.10.2019 10:00 - 14:00
Termine im DanceLab
Fr, 08.11.2019 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 11.11.2019 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 18.11.2019 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Fr, 29.11.2019 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 02.12.2019 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 09.12.2019 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 16.12.2019 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 06.01.2020 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 13.01.2020 10:00 - 18:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 27.01.2020 10:00 - 18:00
Termine im DanceLab
Mo, 03.02.2020 10:00 - 18:00
Termine im DanceLab
Do, 06.02.2020 10:00 - 16:00
Termine im DanceLab
Fr, 14.02.2020 10:00 - 12:00
Termine im DanceLab
Fr, 07.02.2020 10:00 - 16:00
Sa, 08.02.2020 10:00 - 16:00
Mo, 10.02.2020 10:00 - 16:00
Di, 11.02.2020 - Fr, 21.02.2020 19:00 - 23:00
Termine in der Akademie der Künste - Blackbox
Termine in der Akademie der Künste - Blackbox
Termine in der Akademie der Künste - Blackbox
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