Meditating on events like those of Septemand media representations of them, she examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary culture and her own role as witness to and participant in hemispheric dramas. , Taylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to dismantle them.
#The archive and the repertoire full
The approach allows estimation of the extent to w hich the full repertoire is cov-ered and use of this information to determine a lower bound of the total number of species in the repertoire. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena's show Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit. calculate repertoire richness by applying the Chao2 estimator, a nonparametric estimator of unseen species (14).
Examining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity. The Archive and the Repertoire Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas / Taylor, Diana, 1950- eBook English Durham : Duke University Press, 2003. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory - conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances - offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. In The Archive and the Repertoire performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas.
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