Building Bridges: Collecting, Researching and Mediating the Performing Arts

The symposium will be held in English and is an on-site event.
The programme is subject to change.
Catering: coffee, tea, water and small snacks will be provided during breaks. During the lunch break, you are free to choose a nearby restaurant or deli at your own expense.

DAY I – FRIDAY, 6 June, 10:30am-7pm
VENUE: Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Köln)

10:30-11:00 REGISTRATION

11:15 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Nic Leonhardt (University of Cologne/ SIBMAS, Germany), Sascha Foerster (Theatermuseum Duesseldorf, Germany), Thomas Thorausch (Deutsches Tanzarchiv, Cologne, Germany)

11:30-12:45 PANEL I – FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES (Chair: Thomas Thorausch & Ana González)

• Aliénor Fernandez (University Paul Valéry, Montpellier,France)
  Confronting theory and practice: building performing arts archives in the present moment
• Franz Anton Cramer (Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leizpig, Germany)
  Pathways to Visibility: Creating New Archivables between Oral, Aural and Digital
• Dita Lánská (Municipal Library of Prague, Czech Republic)
  “Out of the Bubbles: On the Importance of Cooperation and Popularization”

12:45-13:45 BREAK

13:45-15:00 PANEL II – CHALLENGES (Chair: Nic Leonhardt)

• Naoko Kogo (Osaka University, Japan)
  Reenacting the Ballets Russes in Japan: An Attempt of Artistic Research in the Kenji Usui Ballet Collection
• Katherine Mezur (UC Irvine, Department of East Asia Studies, USA)
  Gesture Macabre and Heritage Glitch: Archival Remix

15:00-15:15 BREAK

15:15-16:45 PANEL III – ENCOUNTERS (Chair: Sascha Foerster)

• Suman Bhuchar & Jerri Daboo (University of Exeter, UK)
  Retracing Our Footsteps: a collaboration to develop the archives of British South Asian Theatre
• Jill Carruthers & Caroline Hall (Showtown | The museum of fun and entertainment, Blackpool, UK)
  Transcending cultural marginalisation: connecting circus collections and circus artists at Showtown Blackpool.
• Hervé Grosdoit-Artur (Bnf Paris, Département des Arts du spectacle, Paris, France)
  Welcoming and training students in the Department of Performing Arts at BnF: a bridge between young researchers and the collections

16:45-17:00 BREAK

17:00-18:00 PANEL IVa – PATHWAYS INTO THE FUTURE (Chair: Thomas Thorausch & Ana González

• Aline Braun (Paris Lodron University, Salzburg, Austria)
  Erasing the Gap: The Artist as Their Own Archivist
• Katja Schneider (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  Joint Archival Adventures: Raimund Hoghe’s Estate

18:00-19:00 – GET TOGETHER
Venue: Exhibition space of the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln

DAY II – SATURDAY, 7 June, 11am-7:30pm
Venue: Theatermuseum Düsseldorf (Jaegerhofstrasse 1, 40479 Düsseldorf)

11:00-11:15 WRAP UP DAY 1

11:15-13:00 PANEL IVb – PATHWAYS INTO THE FUTURE (Chair: Sophie Totz  – TMD)

• Juliette Caron (Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France)
  Revisiting the place of women in theatre by looking at old archives through today’s eyes.

PANEL V – PUPPETRY (Chair: Sophie Totz  – TMD)

• Carole Guidicelli (University de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France)
  Building a bridge between invisibility and visibility: the ERC Project Puppet Plays
• Laura Ars Ricart (Museu de les Arts Escèniques, Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, Spain)
  Encounters: The Past, Present, and Future of Marionettes in Catalonia

13:00-13:30 BREAK

13:30-15:00 PANEL VI – THEATRE MEETS TECHNOLOGY (Chair: Sascha Foerster)

• Martin Bernátek (Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic)
  Bridging Theatre, Cinema, and Science: Illustrated Lectures and Their Historiographical Challenges
• Eva Del Rey (British Library, London, UK)
  Richard Burton’s 1964 Hamlet and the Mediation of Theatrical Liveness
• Ana Wegner (FAPESP / University of São Paulo, Brazil)
  Technological Transition in Sound Design during the 1990s – A Transcultural Analysis

15:15-17:15 POSTER & PHOTO EXHIBITION, TOUR
Contributors:

• Dorota Buchwald & Krystyna Mogilnicka (Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Warsaw, Poland)
  Reclaimed Avant-garde. Central-Eastern European Theatre Avant-garde
• Vikrant Kishore (University of Nottingham, China)
  Dance of the Demons – An Exploration of Purulia Chhau Mask Culture of India
• Margret Schildt (Theatermuseum Duesseldorf, Germany) & Christiane Schwerdtfeger (University Library, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  Connecting what belongs connected! Archives, libraries, and museums –collections and research –different disciplines by using the German Authority File (GND) in the performing arts
• Rafaella Uhiara & Ana Sara Cunha Lara (FAPESP – São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil)
  The challenges of an unprecedented type of archive. The need for building bridges in the collections of theater sound designers in the project Sound Archives of Theatre (São Paulo, 2023-2028)
• Stefan Graebener (Berlin, Germany) & Chris Van Goethem (Erasmus Hogeschool Brussels, Belgium)
  Canon II
• Ohanna Pereira (School of Art & Humanities, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
  Performance of student-spectators in the Theatrical Mediation process
• Ana Perne (Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  The interweaving of museum with archival materials

17:15-18:00 GUIDED TOUR OF THEATERMUSEUM DÜSSELDORF

18:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
Archiving Ecosystems of Germany’s Independent Theatre Scene
With Maren Butte, Sascha Foerster, Dominik Müller, Kathrin Tiedeman, Nina Weber

CLOSING STATEMENTS

19:30 FILM SCREENING
Vikrant Kishore (University of Nottingham, China): Purulia Chhau Dance and the Mask Makers: A Reflective Story

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