Performance Making and the Archive

This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance's relationship to the archive. The essays in the volume examine how the changing nature of performance practices has made it imperative to understand how the archive and archival practices could add to the performance work.

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Ashutosh Potdar is a scholar and creative writer writing in Marathi and English. He is Associate Professor at FLAME University, Pune, India.

Sharmistha Saha is a theatre practitioner and researcher based in Mumbai. She is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.

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This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance's relationship to the archive. The essays in the volume examine how the changing nature of performance practices has made it imperative to understand how the archive and archival practices could add to the performance work.

Inhalt

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Foreword: Performance, Memory and Absence

SUNDAR SARUKKAI

Introduction

ASHUTOSH POTDAR AND SHARMISTHA SAHA

PART I

Concepts, Histories and Performances

1 Archive and Performance; Madness and Revolution: On Marat, Sade and Theroigne de Mericourt

SOUMYABRATA CHOUDHURY

2 Interpreting Material

ASHUTOSH POTDAR

3 Performance, Its Archive and Historicity: Notes on Intercultural Critique

SHARMISTHA SAHA

4 Invisible Histories: Tracing Displacement, Bondage and Resistance through Adivasi Songs and Performance Practices in Wayanad

DEVIKA N. MENON

5 Materializing Site

NELA MILIC

6 From Oblivion to Acceptance: Sadir Dancer Muthukannammal's Presence as a Challenge to Representations

A. P. RAJARAM

7 Archiving for New Emerging Disciplines

SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY

PART II

Dramaturgical Shaping and Re-shaping

8 The Dramaturgy of the Archive: An Interview

FREDDIE ROKEM

9 Rehearsing the Witness: The Bhawal Court Case

ZULEIKHA ALLANA

10 Documentary Theatre and My Performance Practice

ANUJA GHOSALKAR

11 Archiving Tamasha and Lavani through Performance

SHARVARI SASTRY AND SAVITRI MEDHATUL

12 Narratives of Existence: Witnessing Lived and Imagined Realities

HINA SIDDIQUI

PART III

Design and Directorial Methods of Creation

13 C'est la CEPT: Archiving the Archive

ISHITA JAIN, HARSH BHAVSAR AND GAVIN KEENEY

14 Inside Out

ARAM LEE, ANAIS BORIE AND OTTONIE VON ROEDER

15 When I Performed as a Worker as an Artist

AMITESH GROVER

16 On Aaydaan

SUSHAMA DESHPANDE

17 Conversation with Sunil Shanbag

SUNIL SHANBAG

PART IV

Many Methods, Multiple Archives

18 Archiving Performing Arts in India: An Overview

SHUBHA CHAUDHURI

19 Filming the River: Notes and Thoughts from The Chronic Life Film Edition

CHIARA CRUPI

20 No Context: Curatorial Writing, Contemporary Dance and the Archive

VICTORIA MOHR-BLAKENEY

21 30 Minutes about Mumbai's Theatre History

RAMU RAMANATHAN

Index