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Dance, diaspora and the role of the archives: a dialogic reflection upon the Black Dance Arcives Project (UK)

  • Jane Carr
    ,
  • Deborah Baddoo
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Abstract

The Black Dance Archives project collected materials that record the activities of black British artists who created and performed dance predominantly in the later years of the twentieth century. Through the form of a dialogue we bring the perspective of the dance producer who led the project together with a more academic interest in the potential of the materials collected to contribute to dance research. Our shared reflections reveal how a focus on archiving the work of dance artists of diasporic heritage emphasizes that dance, as a form of intangible cultural heritage, is particularly vulnerable to becoming lost to future generations. This leads to reflections upon the role of dance archives within the context of post-colonial Britain that brings to the fore some of the complexities of the archival process and the significance of how this project resulted in materials being dispersed across different institutions.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 65-81

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Dance Research (Volume 38, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 11/11/2018
  • Published - 01/05/2020

Publication status

Published - 01/05/2020

ISSN

0264-2875

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624245
  • Scopus: 85090850430

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