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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6656
dc.title	The Original – ‘Again’. Historical and Contemporary Strategies for Writing and Re/Constructing Dance
dc.contributor.author	Delcheva Margarita
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2021/1/the-original-again/
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 30 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2021-08-19
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-06-29
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2021/07/008
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Contemporary dance
dc.subject	Contemporary dance
dc.subject	Copy
dc.subject	Copy
dc.subject	Dance
dc.subject	Dance
dc.subject	Ephemerality
dc.subject	Ephemerality
dc.subject	Geometric dance
dc.subject	Geometric dance
dc.subject	Original
dc.subject	Original
dc.subject	Performance
dc.subject	Performance
dc.subject	Postmodern dance
dc.subject	Postmodern dance
dc.subject	Race
dc.subject	Race
dc.subject	Re-enactment
dc.subject	Re-enactment
dc.subject	Reconstruction
dc.subject	Reconstruction
dc.subject	Score
dc.subject	Score

Research Article
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The Original – ‘Again’

Historical and Contemporary Strategies for Writing and Re/Constructing Dance

Margarita Delcheva University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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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.

Published

Dec. 21, 2021

Accepted

Aug. 19, 2021

Submitted

June 29, 2021

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Keywords: Score • Ephemerality • Performance • Original • Reconstruction • Race • Copy • Dance • Re-enactment • Geometric dance • Contemporary dance • Postmodern dance

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