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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

By Mark Franko

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780199314201, 0199314209
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
50 MB (52059329 bytes)
Pages
681\681
Library
EBSCO
Time added
2023-11-05 03:51:59

Description

Starting from differences between reenactment and the more established practice of historical reconstruction, leading practitioners and theorists ask how the notion of preservation and representation associated with reconstruction is transformed by reenactment into historical experience and affective relation to the past in the present. In other terms: How does dance convey historical meaning through sensuous form? Danced reenactment poses the problem of history and historicity in relation to the troubled temporality inherent to dance itself. Ephemerality as the central trope of dance is hence displaced in favor of dance as a reiterative practice that confounds categories of chronological time and opens up a theoretical space of history that is often invisibilized by ideologies of immediacy traditionally attributed to dancing.

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