Inheriting Dance. An invitation from Pina
How can dance be passed on? And how is an inheritor supposed to handle such a precious treasure that is not so easy to store or exhibit? Dance might be the most elusive of art forms - and can only be preserved by continually bringing it back to life on stage. But how can this be possible with the creator not being present any longer to bring it to life? What does it take, what can and should be tried to conserve the art, and what degree of alteration can be allowed? It was questions like these that the Pina Bausch Foundation had to face when it came to accepting a major inheritance and carrying it into the future.
The Book INHERITING DANCE. An Invitation from Pina provides a detailed description and reflection on the archiving project An invitation from Pina. An Archive as a Workshop for the Future and the early development years of the Pina Bausch Archives 2010 to 2013. The main concern is the question for adequate ways to archive Pina Bausch’s oeuvre in the first place, what strategies of transmission are suitable, and how the Archives’ principles of being a “living place” and a centre for constant knowledge generation can be filled with practical content. Also, INHERITING DANCE provides fundamental insight into the practical work of the Pina Bausch Foundation and its objective to create an archive as a place for transformation, exchange, creation and artistic practice: A place for dancers, artists, academics and novices - for everybody who wants to look into the work of Pina Bausch.
Photo: Sala Seddiki © Pina Bausch Foundation
INHERITING DANCE. An invitation from Pina
Marc Wagenbach, Pina Bausch Foundation (Eds.)
Final publication of the project An Invitation from Pina. An Archive as a Workshop for the Future by the Pina Bausch Foundation (2010–2013).
The authors: Salomon Bausch, Stephan Brinkmann, Royd Climenhaga, Katharina Kelter, Gabriele Klein, Sharon Lehner, Bernhard Thull and Marc Wagenbach
transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, 192 pages, softbound, € 29,99 (in German and English).
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2771-8 (German)
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2785-5 (English)
