In dance, a practice that exists only in the moment of its becoming, artists work within a paradox of presentation. Behind the visible, the staged performance, lies the quieter, enduring space of process.

During their residency, The Hague based choreographers and performers Simon Bus and Alesya Dobysh open this layer to the public. The installation Dance / Document / Archive reflects on how movement research, normally private and ephemeral, can be revisited, archived, and transformed into a living composition.

Simon Bus, after two decades of practice in breaking, turns toward the archive of his own physical vocabulary. Over the years, he has filmed more than 1,700 fragments of movement, attempts and inventions, collected into a personal library of gestures. In this project, he revisits that archive, revealing the evolving body beyond the borders of genre.

Alesya Dobysh, coming from the house dance scene, engages with rhythm, geometry, and the tension between structure and improvisation. Taking the symbol of infinity as a point of departure, she explores how footwork patterns can be reconfigured into progressive movement scores, translated between diagram and video.

Through video, notation, stills and spatial installation, Dance / Document / Archive explores how the act of dancing extends beyond the stage, as a method of thinking, remembering, and reimagining. It proposes that choreography can live in many forms, between the screen and the floor, between repetition and invention, between archive and live embodiment.