20 Jahre Radialsystem: UNEXPECTED LESSON 3 – Beyond Academia? How Dance Re-writes Research

Performative Talk with Mariama Diagne and Sandra Noeth

20 Jahre Radialsystem: UNEXPECTED LESSON 3 – Beyond Academia? How Dance Re-writes Research 1

Instead of simply exploring how we research dance, we ask how dance changes our view of what we call “research”? In the “UNEXPECTED LESSONS - Knowledges of Body and Sound” series, Sandra Noeth and Mariama Diagne (who are both professors in dance and performance research in German universities) explore how dance has shaped an academic area of research over time: as a practice, an art form and a field of discourse. We present “Rethinking Dance in Academia” as part of “20 Jahre Radialsystem”.

What does it mean to study dance in institutional establishments – universities, art schools, theatres, or museums – that are founded on imperial and centralist structures of knowledge? Which concepts, expectations, and academic forms shape our access to this field? Which practices have been pushed to the fore, and which ones have been hidden in the background? How have things changed today? Embodied practices, non-academically informed perspectives, and collective forms of learning and artistic methods are gaining prominence, making new forms of knowledge visible, and increasing their academic capital in the process.

Radialsystem media partners: The Berliner, tip Berlin, taz – die Tageszeitung, Radio 3

Next date:

• Date Friday, 11/September/2026 18:00
• Venue Radialsystem V
• Address Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain