UDC: 7.017.4
DOI: 10.36871/hon.202401067
Authors
Ekaterina V. Vasenina,
Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, 153025, Russian Federation
Abstract
The aim of the article is to cover the activities of the first state digital archive of Russian contemporary dance, the Information and Research Centre “Dance Union”. The article describes the tasks, goals, and specifics of the modern digital archive, and gives a brief historical overview of it as a place where a society’s memory of its past is formed. IRC “Dance Union” collects, processes, stores and distributes information about the groups participating in the “Dance Union” festival, which is held at the Innovation Cultural Center of Kaluga since 2023, as well as about all Russian groups and dance projects that have submitted information about themselves to the IRC “Dance Union”. The IRC provides bibliographic, information, methodological services and carries out research, cultural and educational activities. Its permanent task is to collect, process, distribute, research and store information about Russian modern dance in the professional and media field. Its goal is to systematically work with the target audience of the Russian contemporary dance community, to observe the dynamics of the creative growth of the groups’ choreographers, and to create an archive of media data. <br> The article gives an example of the dance laboratory “Soviet Gesture” (1915 – present) as a project for the creation of new artistic practices based on the archives of the choreographic laboratory of the State Academy of Art Sciences (1921–1931), stored in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.
Keywords
archive of Russian contemporary dance, electronic archive, dance research, digitalisation of art, source study, archive organisation, preservation of dance practices
