Inheriting Dance

An Invitation from Pina. Edited by Marc Wagenbach and the Pina Bausch Foundation. Translations by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez et al.

The Pina Bausch Foundation who preserves the great choreographer's artistic heritage reflects on questions of remembering and archiving dance and gives insight into the Foundation's practical work. How to archive dance? How to deal with the performative heritage at the outset of the 21st century? How to describe the performativity of remembering? And finally, what is the task of an archive for tomorrow, an archive to serve as a workshop for the future? Furthermore, »Inheriting Dance« provides profound insight into the practical work of the Pina Bausch Foundation, on a local, national and global level, aiming at an archive as a place of transformation, exchange, creative production, and artistic practice, similar to an abundantly growing garden. A place for future generations of dancers, artists, non-professionals, and scholars. Contributions by Salomon Bausch, Stephan Brinkmann, Royd Climenhaga, Katharina Kelter, Gabriele Klein, Sharon Lehner, Keziah Claudine Nanevie, Linda Seljimi, Bernhard Thull, Michelle Urban and Marc Wagenbach. - Contents: Marc Wagenbach: Inheriting dance. An archive as a workshop for the future. An introduction.-- I. How do we write history? Translating processes: Gabriele Klein: Practices of translating in the work of Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal. - Gabriele Klein & Marc Wagenbach: Wild gardens. Archiving as translating. -- II. Dance heritage in the 21st century. Strategies for remembering: Bernhard Thull: The digital Pina Bausch archive. - Sharon Lehner: How to create an archive? - Stephan Brinkmann: Reconstruction as a creative process. Pina Bausch's "Tannhäuser Bacchanal" 1972, 2004, 2013. A report from the rehearsals. -- III. It's personal - Searching for a living archive: Royd Climenhaga: Bausch's american legacy. - Katharina Kelter: Work in progress. A schools project of the Pina Bausch Foundation. - Keziah Claudine Nanevie, Linda Seljimi & Michelle Urban: "If it's your own, it's alive". An interview with students in the schools project. -- IV. Our dreams, our future - The coming archive: Marc Wagenbach: An invitation from Pina. Review. - Salomon Bausch: An archive as a living space. Future prospects. - 192 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abb., broschiert (Kultur- und Medientheorie/transcript Verlag 2014)