Szenarien des Übergangs

In »Szenarien des Übergangs« Miriam Althammer looks at a topic that has so far been neglected in Dance Studies: the impact of Europe's eastward expansion on contemporary dance. Using the example of the East-West exchange at the Tanzquartier Wien in the early 2000s, she examines the aesthetics, practices, and discourses of dancer-choreographers of Southeast European origin based on memories. The methodological and discursive interfaces she uses are the translations of three historically established and dance-affine procedures: Archival Research, Artistic Research and Oral History. Their commonalities unfold in the consideration of acting bodies as subjects and objects of knowledge production and mediation.