ABSTRACT
Archives have been (and often still are) associated with places where things come to rest, where they are stored and kept, and where they can be found again. In the archive, documents and other traces from the past are placed in a clearly organized manner, each xed in the right place by classication systems and xed in time by practices of preservation. Digitalization is bringing about transformations in this archival logic with far reaching implications. These transformations involve a shift from what might be called “archival order” to “archival dynamics” (Wolfgang Ernst Digital Memory). This is a shift from the archive as place that keeps and orders documents of events that took place at one time and in one place towards the archive as a “dynarchive” (Ernst): a place of (re)generation (co)produced by users. These transformations can be seen reected in projects from the eld of dance that engage with new possibilities of digital technology to store and transmit dance knowledge while at the same time, dance and these projects appear most useful to think through implications and potentials of the new archival logic brought about by digitalization.
