Gabriele Klein (Dr. rer. soc.) has been a full professor of sociology with a focus on human movement science, dance and performance studies at Universität Hamburg since 2002. Since 2022 she has also been professor of ballet and dance (Hans-van-Manen Chair) at the University of Amsterdam. She is PI of the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at Universität Hamburg. From 2022 to 2023, she was a fellow at the research center »global dis:connect«.
Franz Anton Cramer is a research associate in the project »Choreographies of Archiving« directed by Gabriele Klein (2020-2023), as part of the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at Universität Hamburg. Prior to that, he conducted research and archival projects at Universität Leipzig (Dance Archives), Centre national de la danse in Paris (CND), Tanzplan Deutschland / Dance Heritage (Berlin), and Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 6
Materialities in Dance and Performance. An Introduction 8
Scribbling Towards Something: Interview on the Written in Dance 24
What Dance Teaches Us about Reading: Four Events and an Interlude 34
Choreographic Writing. Material Practice of Artistic Production 54
Passing on the Legacy of Collaboration: Material Goods as Marginalia 82
"I want to continue working on the body". Gabriele Klein and Sasha Waltz in Conversation 104
From Documentary to Performative Documentation 118
The Scriptal Method and Choreography 134
Notational Iconicity, Spatiality, Time: The Creativity of Artificial Flatness 152
deufert+plischke anarchivtan z 176
Archiving the Body - Cultural Memory and the Practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage 192
Absent and Abundant Arte(povera)facts 208
"Things that Death Cannot Destroy": The Afterlife and Performativity of Photographic Images (Linda Fregni Nagler) 226
Multiple Materialisms: Situating Dance between Enactivist and New Materialist Discourses 244
Contributors 270