DanceMap
Discover the European Horizon project on dance heritage, with STUK as a partner.
DanceMap is a three-year artistic research project that aims to map, develop, and promote the rich yet often overlooked heritage of European dance from the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together researchers, artists, cultural organizations, archives, and policy experts to develop new ways of documenting, understanding, and sharing embodied cultural knowledge.
Through a combination of research, data science, artistic projects, outreach, advocacy, and policy development, we aim to support artistic practice, increase public engagement with dance, and help shape cultural policy—ensuring that dance is recognized as an essential part of Europe’s cultural heritage and its future.
DanceMap is funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s funding programme for research and innovation, and runs from January 2025 to December 2027.
This video by EU Research & Innovation magazine briefly introduces the core principles of DanceMap. The accompanying article goes into more detail about the how and why of this European dance heritage project and also features dancer and researcher Tessa Hall.
In one of the DanceMap projects that Tessa is carrying out for STUK, she conducts in-depth interviews with dancers, mapping their knowledge and experience of, among other things, repertoire work, the transmission of dance, embodied knowledge, and ageing on stage. Part of this material will be available to the general public from April 2026 via STUK’s Body of Work podcast.