{"title":"The Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project","authors":"Iris Lana","doi":"10.3366/drs.2020.0306","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project, conducted by a team I headed in the years 2012–2015. 1 The analysis of this project will assist in understanding both its significance as an archival act of documenting the past, and its influence on the company's present and on Israeli dance. The method of analysis will include a description of the different practices involved in constructing a dance archive; a contextual discussion of archival practices; and a theoretical discussion, principally in the context of changes in current archiving practices and developments in critical thinking about dance as a discipline. The description of the course of events in this article mainly relies on my personal experience and involvement as director of the Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project. The different proceedings, goals, considerations and decisions were documented in monthly reports and in the project's concluding document, and so assisted in tracing the chronicle and details of events. 2","PeriodicalId":42392,"journal":{"name":"Dance Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"168-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dance Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2020.0306","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The article discusses the Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project, conducted by a team I headed in the years 2012–2015. 1 The analysis of this project will assist in understanding both its significance as an archival act of documenting the past, and its influence on the company's present and on Israeli dance. The method of analysis will include a description of the different practices involved in constructing a dance archive; a contextual discussion of archival practices; and a theoretical discussion, principally in the context of changes in current archiving practices and developments in critical thinking about dance as a discipline. The description of the course of events in this article mainly relies on my personal experience and involvement as director of the Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project. The different proceedings, goals, considerations and decisions were documented in monthly reports and in the project's concluding document, and so assisted in tracing the chronicle and details of events. 2