Performing Archives: New ideas on dance documentation and the archive

Abstract

This article presents a historical perspective of dance archives while enhancing the latest developments in regards with dance digitalization and the digital archive.The multimodal and nonlinear nature of dance has found within digital media a perfect companion to emancipate itself from the restriction of text as unique medium of inscription. Still such emancipation is not enough to best inscribe dance and keep its embodied nature. Examples of different archives created from the perspective of the artists enhance the focus of this article to provide suggestions to a future creation of a performing arts archive in Navarra.