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This document serves to summarise, organise and make public (to some extent) the questions and answers i have gathered as I worked on my dance collection “cascas de memória” and experienced various improvisation experiments. I question my current position in relation to the binary document archive: embodied archive , which it was my aim to explore through the making of “Cascas de memória” as well as the validity of that binary. I fnd myself torn between the two, convinced by the necessity to redefne our understanding of ephemerality or of what remains while at the same time drawn to the very kind of un-spectacular performance which believes performances cannot remain. And I discover that it may be more useful and in fact more natural for me, to work between the two, in a way negating the binary. Translating and transforming bodies constantlyline on paper to shape of flesh, or to invisible sound line, fleshy movement back to still drawn mark.... Schneider’s book “Performing Remains” is a constant reference.
Through my experiences of improvisations I fnd myself repeatedly drawn to the relation between rules and improvisation and quickly relate this binary to the one that already interests me (document:embodied). Lord’s book “The singer of tales” also overlays these two binaries, though it is most interesting as an analysis of the rich albeit tense relationship between rules and improvisation. A second and new preocupation arises from my experiments in improvisation: the boundary between so called real life and fake performance. The exact location of that boundary becomes most pressingly problematic and therefore interesting during improvisations that occur in everyday places- outside in gardens and public spaces.
So as I continue to think of becoming a dancing archivist, now beyond the collection “Cascas de memória”, I also plan on moving into that uncertain border area between daily life and performance: A dancing archivist in the borderlands of daily life and performance!
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Embodied archive Document archive Repetition Improvisation Rules