The choreographer, dancer and author Judith Kuckart has donated her personal film collection to the German Dance Film Institute Bremen for digitisation and long-term archiving.

The collection includes video recordings of performances, choreographies and rehearsals from various creative phases and provides an insight into over four decades of artistic work. Judith Kuckart has been one of the most influential figures in contemporary dance in Germany since the 1980s.

With the acquisition of this material, the Tanzfilminstitut is expanding its collection with important documents of German dance history. The films will be professionally digitised, archived and made accessible for research, teaching and the interested public in the long term.

‘We are delighted about the trust that Judith Kuckart has placed in the archive with this handover,’ says Heidemarie Härtel, founder and director of the institute. ‘Collections like this are of great value for the cultural memory of dance.’