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Choreographing American Dance Archives: Artist-Driven Archival Projects by Eiko & Koma, Bebe Miller Company, and Jennifer Monson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2018

Rosemary Candelario
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Abstract

Choreographers have begun experimenting with artist-driven archives using digital technologies, exhibitions and installations, and live performance as a way to generate new work from their own archival materials and increase access to their body of work for audiences. This article focuses on three recent artist-driven archive projects by notable American choreographers Eiko & Koma, Bebe Miller Company, and Jennifer Monson. Drawing on interviews with the choreographers as well as on analyses of the three projects, I suggest that these projects' most important contribution is the idea that archives are not separate from a choreographer's body of work, but are indeed a part of his or her creative process and artistic production.

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artist-driven archivesBebe Miller Companydance archivesEiko & KomaJennifer Monson
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , April 2018 , pp. 80 - 101
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Copyright © Dance Studies Association 2018 

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