{"id":1420,"date":"2026-01-01T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:34:33","slug":"why-what-how","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=1420","title":{"rendered":"Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Speaking Through Practice &amp; Sharing Knowledge<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My workshops and presentations bring together experiences from dancing, choreography, teaching, Oral History and archival methodologies. They grow out of practice \u2014 from works, people and moments in dance history \u2014 and explore what dance reveals when it re\u2011enters dance making, archives, education and new cultural contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These sessions are spaces of exchange. If you are interested in collaboration or feel aligned with this kind of shared inquiry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I invite you to explore my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=1420\"><strong>Speaking Through Practice &amp; Sharing Knowledge<\/strong><\/a> archives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2766 Research \u2766 Writing<\/strong> <strong>\u2766 Talks<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/baerenstrasse_window_table-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo at the B\u00e4renstra\u00dfe\" class=\"wp-image-3150\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;object-fit:contain;object-position:50% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/baerenstrasse_window_table-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/baerenstrasse_window_table-edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/baerenstrasse_window_table-edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/baerenstrasse_window_table-edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/baerenstrasse_window_table-edited-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/baerenstrasse_window_table-edited-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Recent Lectures, Research and Publications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2567\"><strong>Oral History for Dance Heritage<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nIntensive Workshop \u00b7 National Art Museum of Ukraine<br \/>\nImpulse Transformation Platform \u2014 Viktor Ruban \u00b7 supported by Goethe-Institut Ukraine<br \/>\nKyiv, Ukraine \u00b7 01\u201306 December 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2497\"><strong>Beyond Words: Crafting Oral Histories in Dance and the Arts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 23rd International Oral History Association Conference<br \/>\nKrak\u00f3w, Poland \u00b7 16\u201319 September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2574\"><strong>Methodologies and Functions of Oral History<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 CoFestival<br \/>\nLjubljana, Slovenia \u00b7 28 November 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2577\"><strong>A Oralidade na Dan\u00e7a<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nWorkshop \u00b7 SPED \u2014 S\u00e3o Paulo Escola de Dan\u00e7a<br \/>\nS\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil \u00b7 07\u201328 October 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2583\"><strong>Tracking the History<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 IETM Belgrade Plenary Meeting \u2014 \u201cWORK HARD, LIVE HARDER!\u201d<br \/>\nBelgrade, Serbia \u00b7 29 September\u201302 October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2614\"><strong>Oral History in a Network of Change<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 Dance Studies Association Conference<br \/>\nVancouver, Canada \u00b7 October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2611\"><strong>Networking Body Knowledge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 Oral History Association Annual Meeting<br \/>\nLos Angeles, USA \u00b7 October 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2587\"><strong>Sharing the Material is Sharing the Knowledge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPublication \u00b7 Anja K. Arend, Thomas Thorausch and Ricardo Viviani<br \/>\n<i>Jahrbuch TanzForschung 2021<\/i>, transcript Verlag \u00b7 September 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2589\"><strong>Dancer Knowledge Management<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 <i>Produire la m\u00e9moire en danse : histoire orale et mn\u00e9motechniques<\/i><br \/>\nUniversit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur \u00b7 Nice, France \u00b7 November 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2592\"><strong>Stories that Matter<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nOnline presentation \u00b7 Roundtable on Epics, Performance and Dance<br \/>\nHarvard University CHS Athens \u00b7 April 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2020\u20132021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=3192\"><strong>Finding Your Own Voice<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nSemester Seminar \u00b7 Folkwang Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste<br \/>\nOral History with Juan Allende-Blin \u00b7 Activating the Archive <i>Euphorie und Aufbruch<\/i><br \/>\nEssen-Werden, Germany \u00b7 Winter Semester 2020\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2607\"><strong>Euphorie und Aufbruch<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPublication \u00b7 Research \/ Historisation Project \u00b7 NRW 1959\u20131969<br \/>\nPina Bausch Foundation \u00b7 Folkwang University \u00b7 Deutsches Tanzarchiv K\u00f6ln<br \/>\nGermany \u00b7 2020\u20132021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=2928\"><strong>Common Dance, Uncommon Stories<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 <i>Dancing in Common<\/i><br \/>\nNorthwestern University \u00b7 Evanston, Illinois, USA \u00b7 August 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=2322\"><strong>Just Call Us Dancers \u2014 Oral History in the Performing Arts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 Oral History Association Annual Meeting, <i>In Pathways in the Field<\/i><br \/>\nSalt Lake City, Utah, USA \u00b7 October 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=3136\"><strong>The Material and Immaterial of the Archive<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 <i>The Whole Life: Archives and Reality<\/i><br \/>\nPina Bausch Foundation \/ Haus der Kulturen der Welt<br \/>\nDresden, Germany \u00b7 May 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2622\"><strong>Trailing Jean C\u00e9bron \u2014 A Timeline<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTimeline presentation \u00b7 <i>Histoires Connect\u00e9es de la Danse<\/i><br \/>\nParis, France \u00b7 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?page_id=2972\"><strong>Pina and New York<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPublication \u00b7 Documentary Film \u00b7 Writer and Researcher<br \/>\nArte1 \/ Producing Partners NYC \/ Pina Bausch Foundation<br \/>\nChicago \u00b7 New York \u00b7 Wuppertal \u00b7 Essen \u00b7 Brazil \u00b7 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinabausch.org\/search?size=n_100_n&amp;filters%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=type&amp;filters%5B0%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B0%5D=interview&amp;filters%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=any\"><strong>Oral History at the Pina Bausch Archives<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nOral History Collection \u00b7 Research \/ Interviews \/ Archival Documentation<br \/>\nPina Bausch Foundation<br \/>\n2016\u201301 December 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=2222\"><strong>Morphogenesis in Dance \u2014 The Shaping of Artistic Creation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation Proposal \u00b7 Lecture-Demonstration<br \/>\nArtistic Research \/ Dance Creation<br \/>\nFrankfurt am Main, Germany \u00b7 31 July 2015 \u00b7 <em>Proposal, never presented<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=3280\"><strong>Rolf Gelewski<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 Research<br \/>\nResearch into Rolf Gelewski and dance pedagogy<br \/>\n11 May 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2013<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardoviviani.com\/?p=2096\"><strong>Crie Futuros \/ Create Futures Movement<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPresentation \u00b7 Artistic Research \/ Education<br \/>\n<i>Inventing Futures \u2014 Artistic Research With(in) Educational Institutions<\/i><br \/>\nArtEZ Arnhem, The Netherlands \u00b7 02\u201303 December 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> This page forms part of an ongoing chronological map of Ricardo Viviani\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking Through Practice &amp; Sharing Knowledge My workshops and presentations bring together experiences from dancing, choreography, teaching, Oral History and archival methodologies. They grow out of practice \u2014 from works, people and moments in dance history \u2014 and explore what dance reveals when it re\u2011enters dance making, archives, education and new cultural contexts. 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