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DANCE ARCHIVES: LOOKING BACK TO THE FUTURE Claire Hicks & Elizabeth Chua
In creating this edition of Critical Dialogues, the focus in its most basic of terms is that of the dance archive and specifically that of choreographers with an established and significant relationship with the City of Sydney. It marks the end of the first stage of a wider project, Dancing Sydney : Mapping Movements : Performing Histories, a partnership between Critical Path and the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and Macquarie University, working with twelve artists/artist group from 2016 – 2020 as highlighted in Amanda Card’s introduction. Some of these artists – Kay Armstrong, Narelle Benjamin, Julie-Anne Long, Dean Walsh and The Fondue Set – have contributed their reflections here in the previous pages, and others have shared in other ways. Martin del Amo wrote a reflection of his experience and conducted an interview with Anandavalli, and Kay Armstrong created a photo essay entitled FAUX ARCHIVES. You can view these sharings on Critical Path’s website. Earlier this year, The Fondue Set did a live sharing as part of Surry Hills Library’s Talking Bodies series. In 2019, Martin del Amo and Vicki Van Hout were featured in In Response: Dialogues with RealTime, an exhibition in collaboration with RealTime and UNSW Library. The collection now lives online at exhibitions.library.unsw.edu.au/realtime where you can see an incredible archive of Martin and Vicki’s work. Erin Brannigan also conducted an interview with Vicki as part of this exhibition, of which you would have read a partial transcript of in the earlier pages.
