Bard Graduate Center is a research institute for advanced, interdisciplinary study of diverse material worlds. We support the innovative scholarship of our faculty and students as well as resident fellows, guest curators and artists, and visiting speakers.

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Our Public Humanities + Research department focuses on making scholarly work widely available and accessible through the coordination of the fellowship program and public programming that combines academic research with exhibition-related events. Across the institution—from the classroom to the gallery, from publications to this website—we utilize digital media to facilitate and share original research. This section outlines current programming and provides a repository for past scholarly content.

Image: Dancers Ros Warby, Juliette Mapp, and Jeanine Durning’s travel paths in relation to Deborah Hay’s score, from William Forsythe’s Motion Bank.

This January, Bard Graduate Center M.A. candidate Linden Hill published her paper entitled “‘What If?’ Digital Documentation as Performance and the Body as Archive in Deborah Hay’s No Time to Fly” in Interventions, the Online Journal of Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies.

In the paper, Hill explores two strategies for the preservation of dance: documentation as performance and the body as archive. These strategies are examined in how they may by applied to post-modern contemporary dance. Hill uses the documentation of American choreographer Deborah Hay’s solo piece No Time to Fly in William Forsythe’s Motion Bank as a case study.

The paper arose out of the Spring 2014 class In Focus: Beyond the Object Principle taught by Visiting Professor Hanna Hölling as part of the Andrew W. Mellon curricular initiative Cultures of Conservation.

The article can be accessed here.