Rok Vevar has dedicated most of his efforts in recent years to creating a historical overview of contemporary dance in Slovenia. In 2012 he opened his flat to the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive in order to ensure that the Slovenian contemporary dance scene, students, researchers and the interested public had access to the historical materials on Slovenian and foreign contemporary dance practices, and to fill the void in the institutional structure available to this field in Slovenia. In April 2018, the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive moved to MSUM, where it took on a new life as an installation in time. Rok Vevar’s involvement with contemporary dance extends to his work as a dramaturg, co-curator of CoFestival, international contemporary dance festival, a participant in regional and local programmes of Nomad Dance Academy and a (occasional) lecturer on the history, dramaturgy and analysis of contemporary dance and theatre. So far, he has taken the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive to Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival in Murska Sobota, in 2015 with Nomad Dance Academy’s Dance Advocates to the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate in Sofia (Bulgaria), and before that, in March 2014, to the symposium Document & Performance: Artistic Modes of Historicization in Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, Cambridge (MA), USA, and in 2013 to Booksa bookstore/reading club in Zagreb. In the latter he hosted, in 2015, members of the international theatre and dance platform EEPAP, second cycle dramaturgy students from AGRFT – Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, and in 2014 MA programme choreography and performance students at ATW – Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen.
