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Dance as Radical Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2020

Marie-Louise Crawley
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Abstract

This essay examines from an artist-researcher perspective the durational solo dance work Likely 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.

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ancient historyarchaeologychoreographyclassicsfeminismmemorymuseumfeminism
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , August 2020 , pp. 88 - 100
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Copyright © 2020 Dance Studies Association

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