DANC 280g Lecture 4: Week 4
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Diana taylor reading: performing cultural memory in the americas: the archive and the repertoire. Some artists refer to performance as performance art, this constitutes the object/process of analysis in performance studies and what one society considers performance might be a nonevent elsewhere. Performance also constitutes to the methodical lens and functions as an epistemology but vary from community to community, reflecting cultural and historical specificity as much in the enactment as in the viewing (3). Performance also tells us a great deal about our desire for access, and reflect the politics of our interpretations (6). Some anthropologists and theatre scholars were heavily influenced by the modernist impulse to see the authentic, primitive and somehow purer expression of the human condition in non- western societies (8). Taylor proposes an active engagement and dialogue as performance as existed as long as we have existed and performance studies had a lot of inherited baggage which it is succeeding in overcoming these limitations (12).
