Building Bridges: Collecting, Researching and Mediating the Performing Arts

A joint symposium by SIBMAS, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf & Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln

6-7 June 2025

FRIDAY, 6 June, 10:30am-6pm
Venue: Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Köln)
SATURDAY, 7 June, 11am-4pm
Venue: Theatermuseum Duesseldorf (Jaegerhofstrasse 1, 40479 Duesseldorf

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In recent years, the question of mediation has played an increasingly important role in the arts, cultural institutions, and the corresponding fields of researching and teaching. Mediation can be pedagogical, political, cross-disciplinary and cross-media, intertwining, reconciling and culturally effective, etc. The symposium Building Bridges: Collecting, Researching and Mediating the Performing Arts, will gather representatives of the performing arts, theatre and dance researchers, archivists, librarians and curators to discuss what connects us: the shared passion and curatorial or scientific curiosity about the performing arts in all their facets – present and historical.

The notion of “building bridges” forms the dramaturgical framework of the symposium.

Organizing team: SIBMAS (PD Dr. Nic Leonhardt), Theatermuseum Düsseldorf (Dr. Sascha Förster & team), Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Thomas Thorausch & team)
Contact: symposium2025@sibmas.org