Lucy Bennett
14:00 - 14:30 (GMT+1)
Who is Archivable?: disabling and decolonising dance notation practices
BIOGRAPHY
Lucy Bennett (BA) is an MFA student in Choreography at the University of Roehampton in London where she researches and creates artistic work through a queer, female, disabled lens highlighting the body as a political entity, the body as an archive of embodied knowledge and historical enquiry. Lucy has vast experience in the arts, dance, maternity services and sex education. Academically, Lucy has publications with Siobhan Davies Studios and The Starving Artist – both on the topic of disability arts. Lucy intends to move onto postgraduate study of Gender and Sexualities and progress to a PHD research in art and activism.
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the whitewashing of dance notation history and archives through the consistent platforming of Labanotation as predominating methodology which stemmed from researching dance notation as a disability arts practice. This presentation will give examples from across world, acknowledge the despotism of dance history in academia and give actions to revive and diversify this field through questioning what is deemed to be ‘notable’ or ‘worthy’ of archiving. The intention is to move from using dance notation for reproducibility, to archiving with the intention of capturing moments, materialising ephemerality, recording the occupation of space and simply archiving out of spite.