Speaking Through Practice & Sharing Knowledge
My workshops and presentations bring together experiences from dancing, choreography, teaching, Oral History and archival methodologies. They grow out of practice — from works, people and moments in dance history — and explore what dance reveals when it re‑enters dance making, archives, education and new cultural contexts.
Some take the form of lectures, others of demonstrations, conversations or conference contributions. All of them invite a shift in perspective: to look at dance as knowledge in motion and to leave with fresh insights, inspiration and a curiosity to explore further.
These sessions are spaces of exchange. If you are interested in collaboration or feel aligned with this kind of shared inquiry.
I invite you to explore my Speaking Through Practice & Sharing Knowledge archives.
❦ Research ❦ Writing ❦ Talks
2025
Oral History for Dance Heritage
Intensive Workshop · National Art Museum of Ukraine
Impulse Transformation Platform — Viktor Ruban · supported by Goethe-Institut Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine · 01–06 December 2025
Beyond Words: Crafting Oral Histories in Dance and the Arts
Presentation · 23rd International Oral History Association Conference
Kraków, Poland · 16–19 September 2025
2023
Methodologies and Functions of Oral History
Presentation · CoFestival
Ljubljana, Slovenia · 28 November 2023
A Oralidade na Dança
Workshop · SPED — São Paulo Escola de Dança
São Paulo, Brazil · 07–28 October 2023
2022
Tracking the History
Presentation · IETM Belgrade Plenary Meeting — “WORK HARD, LIVE HARDER!”
Belgrade, Serbia · 29 September–02 October 2022
Oral History in a Network of Change
Presentation · Dance Studies Association Conference
Vancouver, Canada · October 2022
Networking Body Knowledge
Presentation · Oral History Association Annual Meeting
Los Angeles, USA · October 2022
Sharing the Material is Sharing the Knowledge
Publication · Anja K. Arend, Thomas Thorausch and Ricardo Viviani
Jahrbuch TanzForschung 2021, transcript Verlag · September 2022
2021
Dancer Knowledge Management
Presentation · Produire la mémoire en danse : histoire orale et mnémotechniques
Université Côte d’Azur · Nice, France · November 2021
Stories that Matter
Online presentation · Roundtable on Epics, Performance and Dance
Harvard University CHS Athens · April 2021
2020–2021
Finding Your Own Voice
Semester Seminar · Folkwang Universität der Künste
Oral History with Juan Allende-Blin · Activating the Archive Euphorie und Aufbruch
Essen-Werden, Germany · Winter Semester 2020/21
Euphorie und Aufbruch
Publication · Research / Historisation Project · NRW 1959–1969
Pina Bausch Foundation · Folkwang University · Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln
Germany · 2020–2021
2019
Common Dance, Uncommon Stories
Presentation · Dancing in Common
Northwestern University · Evanston, Illinois, USA · August 2019
Just Call Us Dancers — Oral History in the Performing Arts
Presentation · Oral History Association Annual Meeting, In Pathways in the Field
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA · October 2019
The Material and Immaterial of the Archive
Presentation · The Whole Life: Archives and Reality
Pina Bausch Foundation / Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Dresden, Germany · May 2019
2017
Trailing Jean Cébron — A Timeline
Timeline presentation · Histoires Connectées de la Danse
Paris, France · 2017
Pina and New York
Publication · Documentary Film · Writer and Researcher
Arte1 / Producing Partners NYC / Pina Bausch Foundation
Chicago · New York · Wuppertal · Essen · Brazil · 2017
2016
Oral History at the Pina Bausch Archives
Oral History Collection · Research / Interviews / Archival Documentation
Pina Bausch Foundation
2016–01 December 2026
2015
Morphogenesis in Dance — The Shaping of Artistic Creation
Presentation Proposal · Lecture-Demonstration
Artistic Research / Dance Creation
Frankfurt am Main, Germany · 31 July 2015 · Proposal, never presented
Rolf Gelewski
Presentation · Research
Research into Rolf Gelewski and dance pedagogy
11 May 2015
2013
Crie Futuros / Create Futures Movement
Presentation · Artistic Research / Education
Inventing Futures — Artistic Research With(in) Educational Institutions
ArtEZ Arnhem, The Netherlands · 02–03 December 2013
Note: This page forms part of an ongoing chronological map of Ricardo Viviani’s research, lectures, presentations and related publications. Each entry is intended to lead to a corresponding page documenting the project, lecture, publication or research in greater detail.