pARTnering documentation: approaching dance . heritage . culture

As choreographers nowadays are increasingly inventing their own tools for documentingtheir work, new paradigms are emerging. Which forms of documentingcould be an adequate partner for an art like dancing? How do creative parametersmove into documentation? And how do choreographers inventively use scoringand archiving?During the 3rd Dance Education Biennale 2012 in Frankfurt am Main,teachers andresearchers, dancers and scientists, chorographers and journalists met for one weekto teach, share and discuss innovative approaches. Focusing on issues around documentationand partnering, this book delivers some of their contributions – seen fromthe inside of making and teaching dance. How do you dance together? What makespartnering successful? And what insights coming from the practice of this art couldbe of general use?