Traces of the Archive: Imagination as a Creative Procedure and Method of Historical Research
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archive, document, imagination, Reenactment, practice-as-researchAbstract
This article analyzes the Illustrated Lecture on a Reimagination of the Ballet Tango (1955), which, through practice-as-research and movement historiography methodologies, examines the work of choreographer Roberto Giachero. The text explores the possibilities of reenactment in the Argentine context as a critical tool for accessing history and piecing together traces of the past. It argues that historical reimagination is a tactic from the Global South for inhabiting the gaps in fragmentary archives and rendering dance present. It concludes that the body is a mediator of knowledge that, through embodied imagination, links the remnants of the archive to the here and now.
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