Ricardo Viviani

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Recent Lectures, Research and Publications:

• • Reflections on 10 Years of Oral History Collection
    Presentation at the Conference “Pina Bausch – From Ritual to Romance”
    Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany – 26. to 27. June 2026

• • Oral History for Dance Heritage
    Intensive Workshop in the National Art Museum of Ukraine implemented by Impulse Transformation Platform – Viktor Ruban and supported by Goethe Institut Ukraine
    Kyiv, Ukraine – 01.-06. December 2025

• • Beyond Words: Crafting Oral Histories in Dance and the Arts
    Presentation at the 23rd IOHA Conference
    Kraków, Poland – 16.-19. September 2025

• • Methodologies and Functions of Oral History
    Presentation at the CoFestival
    Ljubljana, Slovenia – 28. November 2023

• • A Oralidade na Dança
    Workshop at SPED São Paulo Escola de Dança
    São Paulo, Brazil – 07.-28. October 2023

• • Tracking the History
    Presentation at IETM Belgrade Plenary Meeting 2022
    “WORK HARD, LIVE HARDER!“
    Belgrade, Serbia – 29. September -02.1 October 2022

• • Oral History in a 
Network of Change
    Presentation at Dance Studies Association Conference 2022
    Vancouver, Canada – October 2022

• • Networking Body Knowledge
    Presentation at Oral History Association Conference 2022
    Los Angeles, USA – October 2022

• • Sharing the Material is Sharing the Knowledge
    Paper by Anja K. Arend, Thomas Thorausch and Ricardo Viviani, in Jahrbuch TanzForschung 2021 transcript
    https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6237-5 – September 2022

• • Oral History at the Pina Bausch Archives
    Published Oral History Collection
    www.pinabausch.org – 2016/26

• • Dancer Knowledge Management
    Presentation of an ontology for Oral History documents
    Produire la mémoire en danse :
    histoire orale et mnémotechniques
    Université Côte d’Azur Nice – November 2021

• • Stories that Matter
    Online presentation at Roundtable on epics, performance and dance
    Harvard University CHS Athens – April 2021

• • Finding Your Own Voice
    Semester Seminar Folkwang Universität der Künste – OH Juan Allende-Blin and Activating the archive „Euphorie und Aufbruch“ –
    Essen-Werden, Germany Winter Semester 2020/21

• • Euphorie und Aufbruch
    Historisation Project NRW 1959-1969
    www.euphorie-und-aufbruch.de Germany – 2020/21

• • Common Dance, Uncommon Stories
    Presentation of Oral History epistemology for dance in Dancing in Common
    Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois US – August 2019

• • Just Call Us Dancers – Oral History in the Performing Arts
    Presentation at “In Pathways in the Field” Oral History Association Annual Meeting
    Salt Lake City, Utah US – October 2019

• • The Material and Immaterial of the Archive
    Presentation in “The Whole Life: Archives and Reality” – Pina Bausch Foundation / Haus der Kulturen der Welt https://www.hkw.de/de/app/mediathek/video/75958
    Dresden – May 2019.

• • Trailing Jean Cébron – A Timeline
    Timeline presentation at “Histoires Connectées de la Danse”
    Paris – 2017

• • Documentary Film „Pina and New York“
    Writer and Researcher – An Oral History; Documentary in association with cable channel Arte1 (Brasil) in a collaboration between the Pina Bausch Foundation and Producing Partners NYC for the series „Geografia da Arte“
    Chicago, New York, Wuppertal, Essen, Brasil – 2017

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