Dance Chronicle, 34:138–145, 2011 Copyright C  2011 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0147-2526 print / 1532-4257 online DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2011.548999 “ARCHIVE/PRACTICE”: DANCE ARCHIVES INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM JEFF FRIEDMAN The international symposium “Archive/Practice” was held De- cember 10–13, 2009, in Leipzig, Germany, sponsored by the Tanzarchiv Leipzig, 1 in cooperation with LOFFT (Leipzig), the Hellerau-European Center for the Arts (Dresden), and the Insti- tute for Theater Studies, University of Leipzig. As a 2009–2010 Fulbright Fellow in Frankfurt, I was able to attend the symposium as a guest presenter, jumpstarting my work in dance documenta- tion and preservation at Frankfurt’s Hochschule f¨ ur Musik und Darstellende Kunst (University for Music and Performing Arts). Tanzarchiv director Professor Dr. Patrick Primavesi (Leipzig Uni- versity) and dance researcher Dr. Janine Schulze (Tanzarchiv) presided over the four-day symposium on dance archives. The schedule was packed with presentations and performances by an international group of scholars and artists. Symposium participants met in several locations, allowing us to enjoy performances by several German choreographers and dance groups at the LOFFT Theater complex on Thursday, a few tram stops from the downtown; at the historic Hellerau Festspiel- haus near Dresden on Friday; and at the Tanzarchiv facility on Saturday and Sunday. Owing to space limitations, this report de- scribes only selected highlights from the symposium to illuminate the diversity of presentations and performances. Thursday evening’s events at the LOFFT Theater included introductions by symposium organizers welcoming participating scholars and artists from throughout Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addi- tion to Primavesi and Schulze, representatives from Germany’s Tanzplan, a four-year funding initiative to support contemporary dance infrastructure in Germany, were present. Hopes for fu- ture funding of the initiative, which ends in 2010, were discussed throughout the conference. While Tanzplan promotes, presents, 138