Scrapbooks Snapshots and Memorabilia Hidden Archives of Performance 1st Edition by Glen Mcgillivray 3034303904 9783034303903

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ISBN 10: 3034303904 

ISBN 13: 9783034303903

Author: Glen Mcgillivray

Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance asks the questions: What constitutes an archive? What is worthy of being archived? And who decides? Performances are ephemeral, so archival questions of selection and appraisal determine which performances will be remembered by history and which will not.
The essays in this collection each explore a different facet of the ephemerality of performance, and the traces it leaves behind: from photographic stills of actors or sets; draft scripts and production notes, theatre programs and reviews; the language used to evoke the experience of watching a dance; to the memories contained within a site which has been used for a site-specific performance.
Each of the contributors to Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia employs pertinent case studies to reveal performances that are so often ‘hidden’ from the authoritative archival view; for example, those by women, indigenous people, amateurs and working people, and those outside metropolitan centres. In this way, they build a powerful argument for reconsidering – or at the very least, broadening – notions of what the performance archive can be.

Table of contents:

1. The performance archive: Detritus or historical record?

2. Tales still to be told: Indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive

3. The ‘not-yet archive’ of Sidetrack Performance Group

4. (Re) Constructing the archive: A regional perspective on performance histories

5. More is less: Public profile and academic representation in contemporary British theatre

6. Accidents of survival: Finding a place in the V&A’s theatre and performance archives

7. Feeling for dancing hidden in the archives of the dead

8. Performance, documentation and the archive within the institution

9. Still. Not seen: Photography and the archive under the bed

10. Buried treasure: The lidded box and its function

11. Performance as palimpsest: Leaving a trace memory in site-specific performance

12. Recording forbidden careers: Nineteenth-century amateur theatricals

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