The dancing body as a living archive

Vionnet, Claire; Becholey Besson, Christelle (2023). The dancing body as a living archive. Choreographic Practices, 14(1), pp. 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00058_3

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This autoethnographic video-essay is based on ‘The Shadow of Others’, a performance presented in the seven-story Sir Duncan Rice Library in Aberdeen (Scotland) in May 2017. Focusing on the phenomenology of the dancing body, the performance unfolded the complexity and richness of gestures. Departing from the assumption that a soloist moves with their shadows (gestures from previous dances), I argue for the plural shaping every singular gesture. Combining dance and anthropology, this video-essay revisits the notions of archive, repertoire and anarchive, and proposes a reflection on the intermingling of time, gestures, memory, knowledge and history. Arguing that the (dancing) body is a living archive, I use the metaphor of shadow as a linkage between bodies and movements. Drawing on performance studies and contemporary philosophy, the work emphasizes the way artistic creation generates knowledge, asking the value of embodied practices.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Network (IRN)

UniBE Contributor:

Vionnet, Claire

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

2040-5677

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Language:

English

Submitter:

Claire Vionnet

Date Deposited:

29 Nov 2022 15:12

Last Modified:

07 Aug 2023 18:42

Publisher DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00058_3

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Uncontrolled Keywords:

Archive, Gesture, History, Knowledge, Living Body, Memory, Performance

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/175224

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175224

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