On Record is a documentary project by Aerowaves and Springback, in partnership with regional dance festivals.
On Record is a growing collection of “albums” that register themes, impressions, voices, stories and reflections from regional dance festivals and platforms.
Each album is a tracklist of separate numbers, in text or audio form, composed by the Aerowaves/Springback team. The resulting compilation of different takes and treatments gives a creative afterlife to the live event.
E’ BAL is a cooperation network for contemporary dance in Emilia‑Romagna, Italy: a constellation of spaces, artists, producers and visions working together across the region, documented by the On Record team.
On Record returns to Moving Balkans, for its second edition from 13–16 May 2026 in Novi Sad, Serbia, bringing together performances, pitching sessions and networking events that highlighted the diversity and urgency of choreographic voices across the region.
The ninth edition of What Next festival at Dance Limerick ran from 9–14 February 2026 in Limerick, Ireland. Curated by Catherine Young and Mary Wycherley.
Forum at the Lyon Dance Biennale
The first edition of the Forum at the Lyon Dance Biennale ran from 17–21 September 2025 in Lyon, France. The Forum is a new, experimental, discursive public programme hosting alternative spaces for dance dialogues beyond European borders, bringing to Lyon artists and curators from five regions of the world. Each curator was invited to choose an artist or collective from their geographical region whose work and commitment were strongly connected to their locality, with Indigenous understandings and practices taking centre stage.
An On Record team (Marie Pons, Lórena Sajous and Sanjoy Roy) went there to experience and engage with the programme. Released in December 2025.
The first edition of Moving Balkans contemporary dance showcase ran from 10–13 May 2025 in Ljubljana, Rijeka and Zagreb, featuring performances, pitching sessions and networking events. On Record went there to experience and engage with the brand new platform, moving with the group from Ljubljana (Slovenia) on 10–11 May, to Rijeka and Zagreb (Croatia) on 12–13 May. Below is a tracklist of impressions, opinions and conversations, in text and audio formats. Released in September 2025
Baltic Dance Platform 2024, released in April 2024
The 2024 edition of Baltic Dance Platform ran from 9–11 February in Riga, Latvia. On Record went there to experience and engage with the platform. Over three days, three partner countries – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – presented three works each. Dive into the tracklist of assorted impressions, opinions and conversations with a variety of formats and approaches – all making the most of that magic number, three.
PT.23 – Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts
The 2023 edition of PT (Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts) ran from 6–10 June in Montemor-o-Novo and Lisbon. A team from On Record went there to experience and engage with the festival. Find their recordings, observations, conversations and impressions, in all kinds of formats: long, short, text, audio, reportage, interview, diary, commentary, and more. Released in September 2023
