Releasing the Archive (2014 - 2020)

The practice-led project ‘Releasing the Archive’, undertaken in collaboration with dance-scholar Carol Brown (NZ/AUS), aims to re-articulate marginalised modernist exile-dance practices and histories, with reference to the work of Austrian Jewish choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890-1959) who pioneered Modern Dance in New Zealand and Australia after 1939. It embraces trends towards somatic-informed dance practices, performance-as-archive, and the revisioning of modernist dance legacies.

This collection documents a multi-component output with contextualising information. The items provide evidence of the projects 300-Word Statement, Research Questions & Research Timeline, The Film 'Releasing Her Archive', The installation 'Displaced/Displayed: Re-enacting dances of migration', The Performance 'Lost & Found' & the Interactive Installation 'I Travel With You' (which together form the research output for this project), Research Process Documentation (in the form of Videos & Images from workshops in Auckland & Berlin), The Journal Editorial 'Practices of Freedom: the Feldenkrais Method and Creativity', Contextualising Information (a Book Chapter & a Powerpoint Presentation), & Historical Resource Images.