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Inheriting Dance's Alternative Histories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2014

Kate Elswit
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Abstract

In 1975, German choreographer Kurt Jooss created his last dance, Dixit Dominus, for Swedish-based Indian dancer Lilavati Häger. After Rani Nair reconstructed what is often seen as a “minor” work, she then created Future Memory (2012) to engage more directly with her inheritance, from caring for the personal things and stories that surrounded the piece to re-working its promise of dancing between European and Indian forms. Working outward from my position as dramaturg and historian for this project, this essay addresses the potential and precariousness of contemporary dance's experiments with redoing history at the intersection of multiple contested legacies.

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Ausdruckstanzdance theatredramaturgygiftinheritanceKurt JoossLilavati HägermemoryRani Nairreconstructionreenactment

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , April 2014 , pp. 5 - 22
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2014 

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