Performing the archive as interdisciplinary artistic-educational process

Parker, Alan; Samuel, G M

Title: Performing the archive as interdisciplinary artistic-educational process
Creator: Parker, Alan
Creator: Samuel, G M
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2023
Date: 2023
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469151
Identifier: vital:77214
Identifier: ISBN 9781000768770
Description: Since 2015, South African tertiary education institutions have been deeply embroiled in processes of re-thinking pedagogies and curricula, spurred by calls for decolonial change by young student-led, national movements such as# Rhodesmustfall and# Feesmustfall. In the field of performance studies and practice, this has initiated a welcomed re-imagining of how teaching and learning occur within the performing arts in South Africa where diverse disciplines, forms, histories and discourses, connecting to a wide range of both indigenous and global contexts, combine in the training of multi-skilled, critically aware performers, theatre-makers, educators and researchers. At the University of Cape Town, in particular, this process has been complemented by the recent merger between the School of Dance and the Department of Drama into the newly formed Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. Through this merging of artistic disciplines, the decolonial re-thinking of teaching and learning has been augmented by a significant move towards artistic interdisciplinarity and a strong focus on experimentation and research within performancemaking practices. As educators and choreographers working within this particular context, we have found the intersection between “choreographic performance”(Cvejić, 2015, p. 14) 1 and the archive to be a particularly rich and open field of possibility where critical questions can be asked, through the body, about the relationality between the past and the present and where tacit ideologies, socio-cultural belief systems and geopolitical perspectives, often implicit in bodies and their behaviours, can be surfaced and openly critiqued.
Format: pdf
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Relation: Parker, A. and Samuel, G.M., 2019. Performing the archive as interdisciplinary artistic-educational process. Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, p.22
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