Documenting Performance i ii Documenting Performance Th e Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving Edited by Toni Sant Bloomsbury Methuen Drama An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY iii Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York W C 1B 3 DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2017 © Toni Sant and contributors, 2017 Toni Sant has asserted his rights under the C opyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 , to be identifi ed as Editor of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-i n-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN : HB : 978-1-472-58818-0 PB : 978-1-472-58817-3 ePub: 978-1-472-58819-7 e PDF : 978-1-472-58820-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Cover design by rawshock design Cover image © shutterstock Typeset by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk iv To Kekina v vi Contents List of Illustrations x List of Tables xi List of Contributors xii Acknowledgements xxi 1 Documenting Performance: An Introduction T oni Sant 1 Part One Contexts for Documenting Performance 13 2 Performance Arts and Th eir Memories Daniela Salazar 19 3 Description Models for Documenting Performance Alberto Pendón Martínez and Gema Bueno de la Fuente 29 4 Intellectual Property Matters for Documenting Performance: Challenges and Current Trends J eanine Rizzo 47 5 Expanding Documentation, and Making the Most of the ‘Cracks in the Wall’ A nnet Dekker, Gabriella Giannachi and Vivian van Saaze 61 Part Two Ways of Documenting Performance 79 6 Remembering Performance Th rough the Practice of Oral History Panayiota A. Demetriou 83 7 Translating Performance: Desire, Intention and Interpretation in Photographic Documents H elen Newall, Amy Skinner and Allan Taylor 93 8 Documenting Audience Experience: Social Media as Lively Stratifi cation Joanna Bucknall and Kirsty Sedgman 113 vii viii Contents 9 Web Archiving and Participation: Th e Future History of Performance? V anessa Bartlett 131 10 Documenting Digital Performance Artworks Adam Nash and Laurene Vaughan 149 Part Th ree From Documents to Documenting 161 11 Paradocumentation and NT Live’s ‘CumberHamlet’ Daisy Abbott and Claire Read 165 12 Th inking Virtually in a Distracted Globe: Archiving Shakespeare in Asia A lvin Eng Hui Lim 189 13 From Copper-Plate Inscriptions to Interactive Websites: Documenting Javanese W ayang Th eatre Miguel Escobar Varela 203 14 Archiving Western Australian New Music Performance Cat Hope, Adam Trainer and Lelia Green 215 15 Participation and Presence: Propositional Frameworks for Engaging Users in the Design of the Circus Oz Living Archive Laurene Vaughan 227 Part Four Documenting Bodies in Motion 239 16 What do we Document? Dense Video and the Epistemology of Practice Ben Spatz 241 17 Pleasures of Writing about the Pleasures of the Practice: Documenting Psychophysical Performer Trainings Alissa Clarke 253 18 Dance Archival Futures: Embodied Knowledge and the Digital Archive of Dance Laura Griffi ths 271 Contents ix 19 Documenting Dance: Tools, Frameworks and Digital Transformation S arah Whatley 283 Notes 305 Bibliography 323 Index 351