Journal | Venezia Arti
Journal issue | 30 | 2021
Research Article | The Original – ‘Again’
The Original – ‘Again’
Historical and Contemporary Strategies for Writing and Re/Constructing Dance
Abstract
Writing and dance have been positioned by scholars in a contraposed play throughout the chronological period from the Renaissance to today: dancing begins when writing stops. Scholars have accused dance of ephemerality and have attempted to salvage it through notation. In postmodern and contemporary dance, some choreographers challenge traditional assumptions about the primacy and stability of text and documentation. They ‘write’ with dance in both conceptual and alphabetic ways, some exploring the dimension of race. This study tests theories by Mark Franko and André Lepecki through analysis of dance reenactment strategies and interventions by choreographers Trisha Brown and Christopher-Rasheem McMillan.
Submitted: June 29, 2021 | Accepted: Aug. 19, 2021 | Published Dec. 21, 2021 | Language: en
Keywords Dance • Performance • Postmodern dance • Re-enactment • Score • Contemporary dance • Copy • Race • Geometric dance • Ephemerality • Reconstruction • Original
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2021/07/008
