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Record Nr.

UNINA9910726279403321

Autore

Kämpfe Vicky

Titolo

Dance Practices as Research : Approaches to the Safeguarding and Transmission of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Dance / / by Vicky Kämpfe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031305818

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 155 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Heritage Studies, , 2946-6067

Disciplina

363.69

792.8072

Soggetti

Cultural property

Dance

Performing arts

Theater

Cultural Heritage

Practice-as-Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Cultural heritage dance and research practice -- Chapter 2. The intangible in the context of performative situations -- Chapter 3. Performative doing as a living archive of cultural practices -- Chapter 4. Performative methods as approach to dance practice -- Chapter 5. The living heritage of dance. Dance archives in practice -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: perspectives for the living heritage of dance.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contributes to the growing scientific literature on ‘intangible cultural heritage’ – determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of safeguarding and transmission – by advancing a theoretical-analytical framework for the (in)tangible cultural heritage of dance. By exploring the potential of the ‘intangible materiality’ of dance practice the book argues that implementing the concept of a ‘performative dance-archive’ creates a new analytic field: research in praxis. The concept of the ‘performative dance-archive’ draws out the potential for safeguarding and transmission of dance heritage, but also the



challenges of the opposition between living heritage and the codifying of cultural inventories. This book uses the formal and contextual transformation of Argentine tango and German modern dance to discuss this ambiguity of intangible heritage and how the “performative dance-archive” creates a cognitive, empractical approach to determine, archive, and distribute danceknowledge. This is a timely methodological intervention in the context of the increasing importance of the intangible cultural heritage. It enables us to re-revise the concept of (im)materiality and the specific knowledges within cultural practice as a necessary fundamental category for research-processes and societal growth. This book is directed both to researchers in the field of intangible cultural heritage and to practitioners and researchers searching for new ways of investigating methods and perspectives to understand 'immaterial materialities'.