Much of dance's history and knowledge remains undocumented, scattered across personal collections, communities, studios, institutions, and the memories of those who lived it. Moving Grounds exists to change that.
We are building an open and accessible knowledge platform where African dance can be documented, researched, discussed, remembered, and discovered. Your support helps us do this work.
What Your Support Makes Possible
Document
Record the people, practices, performances, festivals, communities, and histories shaping African dance.
Research
Support research and knowledge production that takes dance seriously as a cultural, social, political, and intellectual practice.
Archive
Digitise, organise, preserve, and make accessible photographs, films, documents, oral histories, and other materials that might otherwise disappear.
Publish
Create space for essays, research papers, criticism, interviews, field notes, and other forms of writing and documentation.
Make Knowledge Accessible
Keep valuable resources freely available to dancers, researchers, students, educators, journalists, institutions, and the wider public.
Why Support Moving Grounds?
We believe access to knowledge is part of the social infrastructure of a thriving society. Knowledge helps communities understand where they have come from, make sense of the present, and imagine what comes next. When histories, experiences, and ideas are documented and made accessible, they can be shared across generations, challenged, built upon, and carried forward.
Supporting Moving Grounds means supporting the long-term work of building an open knowledge infrastructure, one that preserves memory, encourages inquiry, connects people and ideas, and makes valuable knowledge more accessible to everyone.
How You Can Support
Individual Support
Make a contribution towards the ongoing development of Moving Grounds.
Institutional & Foundation Support
Fund research, archival projects, documentation initiatives, publications, or specific thematic programmes.
Corporate Support
Support Moving Grounds as part of your organisation's cultural, educational, or social impact commitments.
In-kind Support
Contribute equipment, technology, archival materials, expertise, services, or other resources that can strengthen the platform.
Strategic Partnership
Work with us to develop research, documentation, technology, education, or cultural initiatives.