Elswit, Kate (2014) Inheriting Dance’s Alternative Histories. Dance Research Journal, 46 (1). pp. 5-22. ISSN 0149-7677

Abstract

In 1975, German choreographer Kurt Jooss created his last dance, Dixit Dominus, for Swedish-based Indian dancer Lilavati Häger. After Rani Nair reconstructed what is often seen as a “minor” work, she then created Future Memory (2012) to engage more directly with her inheritance, from caring for the personal things and stories that surrounded the piece to re-working its promise of dancing between European and Indian forms. Working outward from my position as dramaturg and historian for this project, this essay addresses the potential and precariousness of contemporary dance's experiments with redoing history at the intersection of multiple contested legacies.

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Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/dance-rese...
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Dramaturgy, History and Memory, Archives, Practice-Based Research, Reenactment, Reconstruction, Indian Dance, Kurt Jooss, Ausdruckstanz, Lilavati Häger
Subjects:	European Theatre, Dance and Performance Dramaturgy Movement Practice Research Dance History of Theatre, Dance and Performance Transnational and Transcultural Performance Choreography
Depositing User:	Kate Elswit
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2018 17:01
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2021 10:02
URI:	https://crco.cssd.ac.uk/id/eprint/769