How to create dance archives as ‘meaningful’ and ‘attractive’ tools for new creation? In 2013, Ong Keng Sen (Singapore International Festival of Arts) together with The Saison Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, called to life a project on archiving dance, which subsequently became the Archive Box Project. In the following years, it was realized in three phases oscillating between mediation, collaborative research and artistic practice. Seven participating Japanese artists, who each created an archive of their own works, developed individual, often contrary concepts of the archiving process.