Giachero/Scaccheri. Two ways of approaching the archive: a materialist approach and a counter-hegemonic approach.

Abstract

This article is part of the research project “Historiographies in motion. Archive, recreation, and new methodologies for approaching the history of Argentine dance,” which addresses historiographical issues, specifically archiving and reenactment or reperformance, from a localized perspective. In this vein, this article aims to continue this questioning of the ways in which dance archives are constructed and, from a critical position, to formulate two possible approaches: on the one hand, a materialist approach based on the reading, interpretation, organization, and “re-archiving” of the work of Argentine choreographer Roberto Giachero; and, on the other hand, a counter-hegemonic reading through “navigating” the collection of artist Iris Scaccheri. In this way, we propose to mobilize the more static and univocal notion of archive, contemplating the trends of the so-called “archival turn” (Tello, 2015) to map or choreograph new forms of entry.