Sasha Waltz & Guests

For 30 years, the artistic collective and dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests has celebrated international success with its contemporary choreographies, social sculptures, Dialoge projects, operas and films. On the occasion of its anniversary, choreographer Sasha Waltz looks back together with people who have accompanied her on her way. As she herself aptly describes it, "an ensemble is a living archive." But how does an ensemble remember?Beyond the mere chronology of events, the book brings an aspect of remembrance to the fore that ensures the repeatability of dance: Notations. Sasha Waltz's "scores'' consist of an eclectic collection of evocative terms, each of which designates individual choreographic figures. Regrouping 50 of these terms in an encyclopaedic tradition, this publication detaches them from their actual context in the score, hence creating a rearrangement that generates new links within Sasha Waltz's oeuvre and makes the choreographic figures themselves dance.