The initial desire in the creation of this dance performance is the question: in what way could archiving dance art be an artistic practice? The author's exploration of this desire takes place through a transgenerational creative exchange with six choreographers/directors/dancers/performers of the local independent dance scene: Nela Antonović, Anđelija Todorović, Jelena Jović, Tatjana Pajović, Boris Čakširan, and Sanja Krsmanović Tasić. Together, these six artists carry out the performance, that is, "archive in motion" - embodying insufficiently documented records of movements, experiences, memories, oral histories from their artistic works - at a time when there is no official institutional framework for archiving the local dance scene. Through the transgenerational (self)questioning of physical, social, emotional, economic, ideological and other (mostly invisible) vulnerabilities behind their cultural and artistic work and practice, the tactics, principles, (re)positioning and contradictions of their self-sustainability as a form of resistance, criticism and togetherness in the turbulent socio-political circumstances of work and life during the last forty years are also being re-examined. What can Antonović, Todorović, Jović, Pajović, Čakširan and Krsmanović Tasić say about all this from today's perspective (artistically and personally)? What are their bodies carrying and hide? In what ways is the impermanence of archiving a time and history reflected through the impermanence of the artistic performance itself (dance performance)? How does dance art (independent scenes) survive as a relevant social, cultural, and political tool for reshaping and remaking the social body? The desire to make solid history is sure to end in failure. The only question is for whom?
