Do you work with embodied knowledge, transmission, reconstruction, archives or community memory?

Your experience can help shape a more inclusive future for European dance heritage.

Share Your Practice

Dance heritage often lives beyond formal archives: in bodies, personal collections, small organisations and community networks. By completing and sharing this survey, you help us understand:

• What dance heritage exists today
• What is at risk of being lost
• What deserves greater visibility, care and support

Please share it with your colleagues, artists, practitioners and networks.

Who We’d Love to Hear From

We warmly invite responses from anyone engaged with dance heritage, formally or informally, including:

• Artists, practitioners and researchers
• Those working with transmission, re-enactment, reconstruction, reply or other embodied practices
• Individuals and organisations developing innovative or unconventional heritage approaches
• Communities and regions whose dance histories are underrepresented or overlooked
• Archives, libraries and collections, large or small

Because dance moves across borders, bodies and cultures, we especially welcome voices from across Europe and from practitioners working in connected contexts worldwide.

About the Survey

The survey was designed by the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University as part of the DanceMap project. It maps the materials, practices and stories connected to 20th- and 21st-century dance.

We are particularly keen to learn about:

• Unarchived or endangered collections
• Embodied practices not yet documented
• Informal or community-based heritage work
• Histories missing from mainstream archives

Your contributions will directly inform the next stages of DanceMap’s work and research priorities, helping to build a more diverse, visible and living map of European dance heritage.

What Is DanceMap?

DanceMap is a three-year international artistic research project dedicated to safeguarding and celebrating the rich and often overlooked heritage of modern and contemporary European dance.

It brings together artists, researchers, cultural organisations, archives and policy experts to explore new ways of documenting, understanding and sharing embodied cultural knowledge.

Image credits: Vera Skoronel Dance Group, 1920s. Photo by Continental Photo, Berlin, Courtesy of Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln