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Reactivating the Record: Performance, Spaces of History, and Researching the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company Tour to the UK
Amanda Rogers 
GeoHumanities, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 256 - 272
Swansea University Author:
Amanda Rogers
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/2373566x.2022.2150259
Abstract
This is an autoethnographic reflection about doing research on the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company tour to the UK. Drawing upon research on performance, history and reactivation, I argue that the situated encounters, memories and experiences associated with performance documentation – the arch...
| Published in: | GeoHumanities |
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| ISSN: | 2373-566X 2373-5678 |
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Informa UK Limited
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61600 |
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This is an autoethnographic reflection about doing research on the 1990 Cambodian National Dance Company tour to the UK. Drawing upon research on performance, history and reactivation, I argue that the situated encounters, memories and experiences associated with performance documentation – the archival “record” – complicates our sense of performative endings. I reflect on the seeming inability to study an “original” performance and the passing of dance masters during the course of my research, whilst simultaneously finding pictures and reports about them in archives and online. Through this, I consider how the affective investments of performances linger, often for decades. |
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| Keywords: |
Archive, Cambodia, dance, performance, reactivation |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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1 |
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256 |
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272 |