In "The Archive and the Repertoire" preeminent performance studies
scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role
of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to
grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken
seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. 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. "The Archive and
the Repertoire" invites a remapping of the Americas based on
traditions of embodied practice.
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. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco
Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena's show "Two Undiscovered Amerindians
Visit . . ., "Taylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and
conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to
dismantle them. Meditating on events like those of September 11,
2001 and 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. "The
Archive and the Repertoire" is a compelling demonstration of the
many ways that the study of performance enables a deeper
understanding of the past and present, of ourselves and others.
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