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Body of Work. Doing Dance Heritage

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The Body of Work podcast of STUK explores the joys and challenges of dance heritage work. The first season focuses on dance repertory from the dancers' perspective. The transmission of dance from body to body, audience to audience, is what keeps dance alive. Repertory - choreographies from the past, revived, and performed again in the present - is a way of connecting us to work from the past. Through interviews with dance practitioners in the Flemish and international contemporary dance scene, we tap into lively stories, vast experience and deep insight, directly from the dance studio and t...

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Introduction. Welcome to Body of Work. Doing Dance Heritage 09.04.2026 18:14

In this introductory episode we lay out the episodes of this season of the Body of Work podcast, and take the opportunity to speak with Delphine Hesters, coordinator of dance heritage at STUK. Sound featured in the episode: Stage recordings from Bartók / Beethoven / Schönberg , by Rosas/Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, recorded by Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes. Music: Grosse Fuge, op.133, by Lu...

Episode 1. Jumping through time. Transmitting THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 08.04.2026 57:59

THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER, by Jan Martens, premiered in 2014. Now, 11 years later, this complex and exhausting choreography has returned to the stage as THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0. During the final month of rehearsals before the premiere, we went into the studio to meet the people behind this revival. We hear what it takes to pass on this highly demanding work - from the new cast of dancers, to rehears...

Episode 2. Dance archeology. Working with the repertory of Rosas 08.04.2026 54:38

Rosas, the dance company of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, has developed an extensive and diverse repertoire over the years. This means that Rosas provides a rich case study to explore questions of repertory. We can examine the various roles in the repertory field: from original to new cast member, from rehearsal director to repertory teacher. We can unpack the different approaches to transmission us...

Episode 3. Out of Context - for Pina. What if we danced this work forever? 08.04.2026 49:40

When we think of dance repertoire, we think of pieces that are passed on from generation to generation. But Alain Platel’s Out of Context – For Pina is different. After premiering in 2010 and touring the world extensively, its time on stage was due to end. Until the cast of Out of Context had another idea… 15 years later, the same dancers who created the piece are still performing it at least once...

Episode 4. Forty years of Unfolding Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich 08.04.2026 44:09

In 1982, before her company Rosas even existed, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker premiered Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich . Over the years, Fase has been passed on to multiple generations of dancers, meaning that over 40 years later, the story of this piece continues. In 2025, STUK’s annual dance heritage festival, Body of Work - Unfolding Fase , was fully built around this classic in...

Episode 5. Doing dance heritage – a conversation 08.04.2026 46:51

This final episode takes the opportunity to further unravel the question of ‘doing’ dance heritage from multiple perspectives. Moving beyond the stage and studio, we travel around Europe to meet Madeline Ritter, initiator of DanceMap and a leading advocate of dance heritage, Franz Anton Cramer with a background in archiving dance, Timmy De Laet, a dance studies professor at the University of Antwe...