It is feeble logic which leads one to think that knowing how a performance functions (or having opinions in this regard) also means having the basics necessary to make it function. Knowing that, when and why a performance 'lives' does not presuppose knowing how to make it live.

The keynote will explore the impact of this feeble logic on questions of formation, storage and sustainability of cultural heritage in dance. To adress the problem it will introduce the concept of contiguity. It is a concept stronger than mere succession but weaker than continuity to describe a setting where two entities get as close as possible to each other, at their limits, in space, without intersection and no third in between.