Dance as Radical Archaeology
Dance Research Journal (IF), Pub Date : 2020-08-13, DOI: 10.1017/s0149767720000194
Marie-Louise Crawley
This essay examines from an artist-researcher perspective the durational solo dance workLikely Terpsichore? (Fragments) , created for and performed at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (UK) in 2018. It asks how dance's presence in the archaeological museum might allow an alternative visibility for ancient female bodies previously rendered only partially visible by history. It makes a claim for dance in the archaeological museum as a subversive act of radical archaeology, in terms of how, by playing on notions of dismembering/remembering histories, it seeks to disrupt received notions of how we view and understand ancient history and culture.
Dance Research Journal (IF), Pub Date : 2020-08-13, DOI: 10.1017/s0149767720000194
Marie-Louise Crawley
This essay examines from an artist-researcher perspective the durational solo dance work
