Dancing necessities

Infrastructures, interventions, and maintenance

Forfattere

  • Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt
  • Franziska Bork-Petersen
  • Jonas Schnor
  • Karen Vedel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/peri.v21i39.152261

Resumé

Summary

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. Four aspects are taken into account: the landscape and economy of venues, the educational changes, an upsurge of self-organised spaces and cooperatives in the field, and finally the field of critique and self-archiving. Through an analysis across frames of production, presentation, and distribution, we suggest tendencies of how dance and choreography is currently moved by its material and immaterial infrastructures. The conclusion stresses how artistic self-organisation of both production platforms, festivals, and separatist collectives can be understood as infrastructural choreographies: artistic and self-maintaining ways of responding to institutional and educational instability, structural precarity, and normative representation in the Danish landscape of dance and choreography.

 

Resumé

Ved brug af et vokabular fra infrastrukturstudier i konteksten af dansevidenskab og teater- og performancestudier giver artiklen en kritisk analyse af, hvad der er sket infrastrukturelt i de seneste 10 år i det danske danse- og koreografifelt. Fire aspekter tages i betragtning: et landskab over scener og tilhørende økonomi, forandringer i de nationale uddannelser indenfor dans og koreografi, en fremkomst af selvorganiserede studios og kooperativer, og endelig betingelserne for kritik og arkivering af dans. Ved at analysere på tværs af rammer for produktion, præsentation og distribution, beskriver vi hvordan dans og koreografi i vores historiske samtid formes af feltets materielle og immaterielle infrastrukturer. Konklusionen foreslår, at kunstnerisk selvorganisering af både produktionsplatforme, festivaler og separatistiske kollektiver kan forstås som infrastrukturelle koreografier: kunstneriske og omsorgsdragende måder at reagere på institutionel og uddannelsesmæssig ustabilitet, strukturel prekaritet og normativ repræsentation i det danske felt for dans og koreografi.

Forfatterbiografier

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

is an associate professor in Cultural Studies and Performance Studies and deputy director of the Art as Forum research centre at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. From a feminist-materialist perspective her research centres production aesthetics, particularly in relation to structural precarity, infrastructural discrimination, and self-organisation. With postdoc Anna Meera Gaonkar she is co-directing the research project Communities of Separatism. Affects in and around Separatist  Collectives by Racialised Artists and Cultural Workers (2022-24). Most recently she co-edited the anthology Infrastructure Aesthetics (2024).

Franziska Bork-Petersen

is an associate professor in Performance Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is a member of the research project Knowing in Motion. Dance, body, archive (2023-26). Her writings on performance art, fashion, dance and digital bodies have appeared in Performance Research, Nordic Theatre Studies and MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research. Her latest book publication Body Utopianism: Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement (2022) explores the paradoxical relationship between bodies and utopianism.

Jonas Schnor

is a postdoctoral researcher in Performance Studies at the Research Centre for Visual Poetics, University of Antwerp, and external lecturer at the Theatre and Performance Studies section at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. They have worked as a freelance dance critic for bastard.blog and their research on dance and ecology, collective creation and practice-based dance making has appeared in Performance Research, Performance Philosophy Journal and Critical Stages/Scènes critiques.

Karen Vedel

is an associate professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Coming from a professional background in dance, she has worked extensively to further the visibility of dance and choreography as an art form in Denmark – both in the cultural political arena and in academia. Her widely published research centres on dance historiography and critical heritage studies. She is project leader of the research project Knowing in Motion. Dance, body, archive (2023-2026).

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2024-12-17

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Ullerup Schmidt, C., Bork-Petersen, F., Schnor, J., & Vedel, K. (2024). Dancing necessities: Infrastructures, interventions, and maintenance. Peripeti, 21(39), 6–29. https://doi.org/10.7146/peri.v21i39.152261

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