Speakers:
Sina Saberi
Mang Tri Ray Dewantara
Josh Marcy

Moderator:
Gwen Hsin-Yi Chang

Venue:
Serambi Salihara, Komunitas Salihara Arts Center

This session approaches the dancing body as a living archive—a site where relationships among bodies, movement practices, and memories hold and transmit knowledge beyond conventional forms of documentation. Part of an ongoing collaboration between Tanztriennale, Indonesian Dance Festival, and Goethe-Institut, the discussion develops a shared line of inquiry emerging from Dancing with Archive and the concept of the embodied archive.

Sina Saberi and Mang Tri Ray Dewantara completed the first phase of the project at Tanztriennale in Hamburg in June 2026, where they began working with each other’s practices. In Jakarta, they extend this process, moving more deeply into one another’s working methods while allowing the local context to shape where the encounter might lead.

The discussion asks what kinds of knowledge are held in the body, how such knowledge moves across generations, and how memories and practices that remain outside written or institutional records might continue through dance. It also turns towards institutional archives to examine how dance histories are selected, documented, and transmitted.

What happens when embodied knowledge enters the archive? How do cultural and historical conditions shape what is remembered, what remains absent, and whose histories become part of the record? What new understandings might emerge when different practices of remembering are brought into dialogue?