Memory, Dance and Archive: How an Archived Performance Inspired the Creation of the Dancefilm Does the Dancing Have to Stop?

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https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v13i1.9123

Keywords:

archive, the body as archive, embodied memory , time , re-enactment, past

Abstract

The aim of this article is to delve into memory and dance, and to show how the archive can contribute to definitions of dance. It offers a personal journey into the records of my dance career, where I revisit and reclaim the past framed through the perspective of a mature dancer now aged in my sixties. Using the medium of dancefilm, my position is of observer, dancer, recaller, and bearer of my archive. I experiment with traces of the past, overlaid with the present, to introduce a dialogue about how this investigation can address the aging body as a site of archive. Through my research, I assert that as a dancer, my archive is housed within my body. I am using my dance history and my memories as the vehicle to address the issue of aging from a Western dance context.

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Published

2022-09-09

How to Cite

York-Pryce, S. D. (2022). Memory, Dance and Archive: How an Archived Performance Inspired the Creation of the Dancefilm Does the Dancing Have to Stop?. The International Journal of Screendance, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v13i1.9123

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Choreographing the Archive