Releasing the Archive (2014-2020) [multi-component output with contextualising information]
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 3400
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A film, two installations, a performance and contextualising information.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
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- Year
- 2017
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.4962329
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The collaborative practice-led project ‘Releasing the Archive’ with dance-scholar Carol Brown (NZ/AUS), aims to re-articulate marginalised modernist exile-dance practices and histories, with reference to the work of Austrian Jewish choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890-1959) who pioneered Modern Dance in New Zealand and Australia after 1939. It embraces trends towards somatic-informed dance practices, performance-as-archive, and the revisioning of modernist dance legacies.
While re-activating proto-somatic practices within choreographic contexts, it excavated an alternative feminist legacy of contemporary somatic practices with reference to European dance & body-cultures. The work tested how early modernist dance aesthetics and body-politics of co-creational expressivity can be re-embodied, and how a nearly-lost dance legacy can be un-archived in contemporary forms through somatic-informed processes.
The project facilitated collaborations with international partners including DaNZ, The New Zealand Dance Company(NZDC), Tempo Festival Auckland, Dock 11 Berlin, ImpulsTanz Vienna, International Documentation of Dance Education (IDOCDE), Tanz-Kongress Hannover, and Theatermuseum Vienna.
The project initially evolved by re-articulating modernist body-culture and exile-dance processes through academic presentations, workshops, writings, and through developing somatic-informed choreographic processes in dialogue with The New Zealand Dance Company. These ‘soma-ecstatic’ practices developed by Kampe & brown were further formed into two screen works Releasing her Archive (2017) and
Displaced/Displayed (2018). The project tested the application of emerging embodied vocabularies and ethico-aesthetic making-practices in the immersive performance work LOST & FOUND (2018), activating a ‘doorway to the past’ of exiled European dance histories (Klein 2017). The research-portofolio includes the interactive mobile-phone dance installation 'I Travel with You' (2016), the article ‘Entangled Histories, part 2’ (2017), the chapter ‘Tanz als Überlebenskunst: Die Choreographin Hilde Holger und ihr Einfluss auf die britische Tanzkultur’ (2019), and the article ‘Practices of Freedom – The Feldenkrais Method & Creativity’ articulating the influence of Bodenwieser’s work on the ‘The Feldenkrais Method’ as an alternative somatic history.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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