CoFestival – International Festival of Contemporary Dance Film screening and discussion The Body as Archive is a documentary film based on research that considers ways in which the dancer’s body can be regarded as archive. A few hypotheses are intended as a frame of its research; is the body of a dancer only a repository of
CoFestival – International Festival of Contemporary Dance
Film screening and discussion
The Body as Archive is a documentary film based on research that considers ways in which the dancer’s body can be regarded as archive. A few hypotheses are intended as a frame of its research; is the body of a dancer only a repository of forms of usage?
Dancers create, accumulate and carry knowledge – where is it stored and what do they explore through their practice? Is it possible to locate kinetic knowledge and understand its connection between subjective vision and objective realisation? How do cultural and social contexts reflect in the body of a dancer?
The Body as Archive explores the role of dancer in the preservation of collective knowledge, it’s transmission and it’s accessibility.
Directed by Michael Maurissens
Written by Michael Maurissens and Darko Dragičević
First Assistant Director: Darko Dragičević
Director of Photography/Editor: Alexander Basile
Production: CARRÉ BLANC Productions
Director of Photography/Editor: Alexander Basile
1st Assistant Camera: Janosch Pugnaghi
Gaffer/Sound: Christian Schürmann
Boom operator: Simon den Hartog
Post production: WE OWN YOU
Grading: Jan-Peter Horns
Music compooser: Gregor Schwellenbach
Cast: Prof. Dr. Maaike Bleeker; Allison Brown, Prof. Patrick Haggard, Fabrice Mazliah, Jone San Martin, Michael Schumacher, Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund, Prof. Wolf Singer, Dr. Ing. Michael Steinbusch, Thomas Thorausch, ,Ildikó Tóth
With the participation of: Jonas Dometshauser, Omar Ouinnane and students of Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main – Nami Miwa, Valeria, Liptschansky, Le Kong Sandra, Klara Oehler; P.A.R.T.S. – Ellada Damianou, Fannie Falk, Theodore Livesey, Karolina Loimaala, Akiyoshi Nita, Emeric Rabot; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, UCLM – Maria Gallagher, Elisa Brann
Translation: Karoline Strys
Catering: Moritz Erian
Adviser: Dr. Scott deLahunta
Funded by: TANZFONDS ERBE – an initiative by the German Federal Culture Foundation, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Supported by: Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst – Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience UCL and Institute of Philosophy – School of Advanced Study – University of London, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies – Justus- Liebig-Universität Gießen, Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung – Frankfurt am Main, P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, Technische Universität Dresden, The Forsythe Company
Premiered at Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Köln on 24 October 2016.
Organised by Kino Šiška and NDA.
