Drought and Rain:re-creations in Vietnamese, cross-border heritage

Autor: Rivka Syd Eisner
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Eisner, R S 2014, ' Drought and Rain : Recreations in Vietnamese, Cross-Border Heritage ', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 20, no. 7-8, pp. 798-817 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2013.818567
ISSN: 1470-3610
1352-7258
DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2013.818567
Popis: The Drought and Rain dance trilogy, by Vietnamese–French choreographer Ea Sola, evokes memory, history and everyday practices through song, stylised gesture and stark, graceful images. The performances aim not to represent ancient and wartime Vietnamese pasts as much as call attention to the ways in which the present and past invigorate and co-create each other. The unsettled, recursive and processual nature of Ea Sola’s performances suggest it is necessary to periodically re-encounter the continuing legacies of violence. The performances enact a different form of historical (re)productivity, not predicated on a linear materialism, but based on processes of temporal turn and re-turn. I employ the most recent performance in the series, Drought and Rain 2011, as both subject and lens for exploring the unfinished dynamics of memory–history, and as a site and practice of cultural heritage. Embodying a hybrid mix of multiple re-performance categories, the Drought and Rain performances stretch current notions o...
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