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- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Theatre and Performance Theory
- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Translation as Medium and Method
- Part II Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
- Chapter 6 Transembodiment as Translation
- Chapter 7 Translating Triumph
- Chapter 8 From Novella to Theatre and Opera
- Chapter 9 Gestural Archives
- Part III ‘Translation at Large’: Dialogues on Ethics and Politics
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 9 - Gestural Archives
Transmission and Embodiment as Translation in Occupied Palestine
from Part II - Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2023
- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Theatre and Performance Theory
- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Translation as Medium and Method
- Part II Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
- Chapter 6 Transembodiment as Translation
- Chapter 7 Translating Triumph
- Chapter 8 From Novella to Theatre and Opera
- Chapter 9 Gestural Archives
- Part III ‘Translation at Large’: Dialogues on Ethics and Politics
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
In my practice-based research The Archive of Gestures, I revive an array of gestures and movements present in alternative Palestinian narratives, which were suppressed by Israel and left out of mainstream Palestinian history, by re-enacting, deconstructing and commenting on the gestures and context they were performed in, using interactive video dance installation and participatory performance as artistic and archival forms. In this chapter I analyse four artistic works that resulted from this research: A Fidayee Son in Moscow (2014), Cells of Illegal Education (2016), Gesturing Refugees (2018), What My Body Can/t Remember (2019). In all the works interactivity and participation with the audience play a central role. Here, I explain how moving-thinking together, through re-enacting, transforming and transmitting latent gestural archives, helps embody and translate the stories and their gestures to the audience members’ bodies. This allows the audience to identify with the context of these stories, creating empathy and contributing towards future responsibility.
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- Performance and Translation in a Global Age , pp. 201 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023