14/01/2025
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"Dancing necessities – Infrastructures, interventions, and maintenance" er redigeret af Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Franziska Bork-Petersen, Jonas Schnor og Karen Vedel.
“While dance researchers have gained significant academic traction through critical analysis of dancing bodies, dance’s ‘offstage’ labour and cooperation have received minimal attention in dance research,” dance studies scholar Sarah Wilbur has argued in at text introducing infrastructural analysis as approach to dance (Wilbur 2020, 261).
With this issue, we suggest working with an infrastructural analysis of the field of dance and choreography: the venues and funding and touring possibilities, the educational landscape, the collaborating relations, the reception and self-archiving practices. How are the conditions for dance and choreography in Denmark today? And which kinds of dance find their way to receive funding and enter the stages of the institutions? What are the historical conditions, legacies, and changes for the art form in our local context? Is the field supported or threatened differently in our neighbouring countries?
With an urge to give thought, archival capacity, and discourse to the field of dance and choreography, we in the editorial team came together to create a call for contributions focusing on the conditions rather than the expressions. Or, as the title of this issue suggests, we look at how the education and artistic work of dancers and choreographers are conditioned by necessity, infrastructures, interventions, and practices of maintenance.
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Situating the vocabulary of infrastructure studies within the field of dance, theatre- and performance studies, the article provides a critical analysis of what has happened infrastructurally within the past 10 years in the Danish field of dance and choreography.
