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Back It Up 2019

Workshop & Performance

 

overview

Back It Up is a workshop and an interactive performance which looks at the ways dance can be documented. During the workshop the participants get inspired by various graphical notation systems and try to translate the movements presented by a dancer. Later the audience have a chance to control the performance of two swing dancers.

core

Dance is an ephemeral art which lives in the moment and fades before our eyes. Many have tried to document it through drawing it on paper, filming the dancers’ movement, or describing it in words. If it’s a fleeting art, what’s the best way to archive it? How do dances survive the passing of time or a change in cultural perception?

 

extra detail

  • The event took place at WORM in Rotterdam on 12th November 2019

  • This project was made with the help of dancers Alina Jacobs and Wouter Vervloet.

  • For more information about the show visit WORM’s page or the Facebook event page