Irene Brandenburg is a music and dance scholar and heads the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives at the University of Salzburg (https://ddmarchiv.eu/), where she coordinates the successive cataloguing and digitization of the collection and is involved in research and outreach projects. She researches, teaches and publishes on music and dance history topics from the 17th to 20th centuries, in particular on stage dance in theory and practice, on the relationship between ballet and opera and their interpreters, and deals with the topic of dance and archives.