An/archiving con/temporary dance/ing bodies

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  • Marianna Panourgia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/peri.v21i39.152309

Nøgleord:

Contemporary dance education, oral traditions, dance transmission

Resumé

How is dance history written on bodies in classrooms in the 21st century? This paper derives from four years of ethnochoreological research in contemporary dance education within Higher Private Professional Dance Schools in Athens, Greece. Elaborating on the necessity of multimodal ways of capturing the process of corporeal transmission.

Forfatterbiografi

Marianna Panourgia

is a contemporary Dance Educator/Ethnochoreologist and a PhD candidate at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. Latest publications: “Documenting Choreographic Practices” presented at Modes of Capture Symposium 2023, 09-10 June. “Reflecting on the Dancing Body During Covid-19” (2022) in Lucie Hayashi and Zuzana Rafajova (eds.) Transformations of the body, Prague: Tanečni Aktuality: 34-37.

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2024-12-17

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Panourgia, M. (2024). An/archiving con/temporary dance/ing bodies. Peripeti, 21(39), 230–247. https://doi.org/10.7146/peri.v21i39.152309