2023 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 18-23
Using living bodies as media, dance is itself an ephemeral time-based art, which is contrasted with arts with materials. Through its digitalization, does dance go beyond the boundary of time and space? In Japan, where private bodies, instead of the national and local governments, have supported the dance industry, the dance archives were sometimes built in the academic institutions entrusted by private collections of the dance legends. On the other hand, both in Japan and other parts of the world, archives often conduct exhibitions and works using archived objects. While this article outlines a few major dance digital archives in Japan, Germany, and the US, considering dance studies input on the dance archive, the author discusses the impact of re-enactments of dances and reconstruction of dance world through digitization.
