Münchner Tanzgeschichten //Munich Dance (Hi)Stories

CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions explores structures, resonances and imaginative spaces that arise from an anti-racist, decolonizing perspective on dance. The project founders Sandra Chatterjee and Sarah Bergh, along with Ariadne Jakoby are not only interested in professionalized dance, but also explicitly in amateurs who are interested in dance and are open to issues critical of difference. What can a dance perspective contribute to anti-racist approaches? And how can anti-racist approaches be found in dance and continue to change the dance world in the future? One topic under these guiding questions deals with dance histories and archives with a focus on Munich. How do we know dance and its role in the city’s history?

And where do we encounter what kind of dance in Munich? Pioneers of the professional dance world in Munich are highlighted, but what about the many people who have been dancing in Munich for generations? This raises the question as to the places and spaces that are also significant to many people with a history of migration and that remain unmentioned in the city’s overall dance memory. We are therefore tracing places of our own empowerment by asking about everyday dance stories in Munich that we do not yet know. The guiding question is also how our view of dance changes when we visually locate the dance stories of people in Munich and what we can contribute in terms of Munich’s urban history.

With the help of our open call, we want to find the people who want to share their Munich dance story(s) with us. Through performances, walks to the places of dance events and open conversations, a mapping is to be created that visualizes the diversity of dance locations in Munich and especially the personal stories that are connected to them. By simultaneously integrating the generally visible and received history of the city, new perspectives on the past and present of dance in Munich will be created. And thus, in the best case, open up new perspectives on Munich’s city and dance history.