Lecture in English language.

Valeska Gert was known over and over as an avant-gardist, both in her time and in her various rediscoveries by subsequent generations of artists. In my scholarly career, I likewise find that the case study of Valeska Gert has repeatedly brought me into contact with the limits of existing methodologies for the study of dance history, including the implications of knowledge that arises from practice, and how we trace the intricate micropolitics of dance's transnational circulation through encounters that are at once intimate and widespread. The talk brings together some turning points in my own thinking as well as that of the field.

Kate Elswit is Professor of Performance and Technology at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Co-Director of the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ). She collaborates with Harmony Bench to bring dance and experimental digital practice into conversation, including through two AHRC-funded projects, and a commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

This lecture is a part of the series Valeska Gert and her Afterlives. FU Berlin / AdK / DAAD: Celebrating 20 years of the Valeska Gert Professorship.