The Archeology of <i>Street Dance</i> by Lucinda Childs

Julie Perrin

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/10294

The Archeology of Street Dance by Lucinda Childs

Authors

Julie Perrin Université Paris VIII
Julie Perrin is Associate Professor at the Dance Department of Paris VIII - Saint-Denis University (France). She published in 2007 Projet de la matière – Odile Duboc. Mémoire(s) d’une œuvre chorégraphique (Centre national de la danse / Presses du Réel), in 2012 Figures de l’attention. Cinq essais sur la spatialité en danse (Presses du Réel) and in 2019 Composition. Un vocabulaire des pratiques en danse (with Yvane Chapuis and Myriam Gourfink, Presses du réel). She is the coeditor of Histoire(s) et lectures : Trisha Brown / Emmanuelle Huynh (Presses du réel, 2012) and Odile Duboc. Les mots de la matière. Écrits de la chorégraphe (Les Solitaires intempestifs, 2012). Most of her articles are available here: www.danse.univ-paris8.fr

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/10294

Abstract

This article is an invitation to take a new look at Street Dance (1964) by Lucinda Childs, using an archaeological analysis of comments and traces left by the choreographer and witnesses. An important work from American postmodern dance, Street Dance will be studied as part of research into site specific choreography, through the detailed analysis of twelve documents, questioning the specific link between work and place.