Movement Matters Debate: Archive as instrument for innovation?
As part of the upcoming exhibition Movement Matters, 20 jaar Nederlandse Dansdagen, the Dutch Dance festival is organizing a propositional debate on the topic of archive. The purpose of this debate is to encourage reflection and dialogue on the relationship between archive and innovation, and to consider how that relationship might specifically relate to the field of dance.
The Movement Matters Debate will include early career participants representing various academic and artistic backgrounds, and is a collaboration between the Dutch Dance Festival, Maastricht University Masters’ program Arts and Heritage, and the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH).
Proposition
Is archive essential for innovation?
Exhibition Context
As a practice fundamentally viewed as transient, dance has historically held a contested relationship with archive. The art form has stereotypically resisted permanence; existing instead in a perpetual state of instability. Yet, in a form so deeply rooted in accumulative knowledge, there is more than a suggestion of its interdependence.
While acknowledging that complexities do exist in the relationship between dance and archive, reevaluating their reciprocity might propose new possibilities for the art form’s advancement – especially to a generation of young artists who have been tasked with its innovation.
As the dance world rapidly transforms through technology and globalization, it seems necessary (though perhaps paradoxical) to readdress the cogency of archive; to argue its relationship with innovation, and to consider how that relationship might be understood – both within the field and outside – as an instrument essential to dance’s sustainability.
Moderator
Dr. Christoph Rausch; assistant professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at University College Maastricht (UCM) and founding member of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH).
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