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Bevara Rörelse : en fenomenologisk studie av dans och arkiv

Orman, Celine LU (2019) ABMM34 20191
Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
Abstract (Swedish)
Dance as an art form is strongly connected to the experience of movement. Dance is also connected to the experience that occur in the relation between the audience and the performers on stage. Therefore, information is based on subjective impressions. It’s something limited and framed in a certain time and space that arises, lives and dissolves in the body and in the now. To add the archival function in this context may create tension due to the notion of the archive as static and dead.
The thesis aims to examine the seemingly paradoxical relation between dance and archive, with the questions which methods is used to safeguard dance? Are these methods suitable for safeguarding dance? How can these methods develop?
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Dance as an art form is strongly connected to the experience of movement. Dance is also connected to the experience that occur in the relation between the audience and the performers on stage. Therefore, information is based on subjective impressions. It’s something limited and framed in a certain time and space that arises, lives and dissolves in the body and in the now. To add the archival function in this context may create tension due to the notion of the archive as static and dead.
The thesis aims to examine the seemingly paradoxical relation between dance and archive, with the questions which methods is used to safeguard dance? Are these methods suitable for safeguarding dance? How can these methods develop?
Six deep interviews have been held, three of them with archivists dealing with dance material, and three of them with contemporary dancers and choreographers in order to understand the field from “both sides”. It explores preservation methods for dance as intangible cultural heritage with phenomenology and postmodern archival theory. By following the phenomenological ideas of Max van Manen, the thesis also examine a preservation method based on phenomenological interview. With support from the theories of Terry Cook and Wolfgang Ernst the thesis simultaneously opens up to new ideas of what an archive can be.
The conclusions I have made is that contemporary dance artists take on the archival concept can inspire traditional archive in developing their preservation methods. Another conclusion is that documenting subjective experience of dance can enrich the dance archive and deepen the understanding of dance. (Less)
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author
Orman, Celine LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Safeguarding Movement : a phenomenological study of dance and archive
course
ABMM34 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
ALM, Master’s thesis, archives, archival science, postmodern archive theory, phenomenology, intangible cultural heritage, dance, contemporary dance, dance archive, body as archive, ABM, masteruppsats, arkiv, arkivvetenskap, arkivteori, postmodern arkivteori, fenomenologi, Immateriellt kulturarv, dans, nutida dans, dansarkiv, kroppen som arkiv
language
Swedish
id
8980891
date added to LUP
2019-08-06 13:02:32
date last changed
2019-08-06 13:02:32
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  abstract     = {{Dance as an art form is strongly connected to the experience of movement. Dance is also connected to the experience that occur in the relation between the audience and the performers on stage. Therefore, information is based on subjective impressions. It’s something limited and framed in a certain time and space that arises, lives and dissolves in the body and in the now. To add the archival function in this context may create tension due to the notion of the archive as static and dead. 
 The thesis aims to examine the seemingly paradoxical relation between dance and archive, with the questions which methods is used to safeguard dance? Are these methods suitable for safeguarding dance? How can these methods develop? 
 Six deep interviews have been held, three of them with archivists dealing with dance material, and three of them with contemporary dancers and choreographers in order to understand the field from “both sides”. It explores preservation methods for dance as intangible cultural heritage with phenomenology and postmodern archival theory. By following the phenomenological ideas of Max van Manen, the thesis also examine a preservation method based on phenomenological interview. With support from the theories of Terry Cook and Wolfgang Ernst the thesis simultaneously opens up to new ideas of what an archive can be.
 The conclusions I have made is that contemporary dance artists take on the archival concept can inspire traditional archive in developing their preservation methods. Another conclusion is that documenting subjective experience of dance can enrich the dance archive and deepen the understanding of dance.}},
  author       = {{Orman, Celine}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Bevara Rörelse : en fenomenologisk studie av dans och arkiv}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}