Immortal

Who wants to be called by death during their lifetime and begin to think and act from its perspective? The idea of ​​one's own studio transforming into a foundation or archive, and one's entire output, with all its masterpieces and occasional works, with all its sketches and emails, being negotiated as an estate and destined to end up in a depot, is probably not a very inspiring thought for successful artists. The legacy of choreographers is a special case. It is fundamentally different from any material afterlife. It must literally be embodied and moved, otherwise it will eventually disappear from our active visual memory. Around the turn of the millennium, UNESCO recognized the topic of "living heritage" as one of the most important cultural issues of our time. In addition to analog ...