Documenting the performing arts is both a challenge and a necessity. It allows us to preserve traces of live experiences that are inherently fleeting, capturing their sensory qualities, creative processes, staging, and artistic expressions beyond the moment of performance.

Beyond preservation, documentation creates opportunities for knowledge to circulate across generations, offering material for study, research, reinterpretation, and new artistic explorations. It also opens performances to wider audiences, overcoming barriers of time, place, and physical access.

In a constantly evolving world, documenting the performing arts becomes a way of honouring the ephemeral nature of live experience while creating new connections between disciplines, encouraging artistic experimentation, and allowing embodied stories to travel across geographies and cultures.