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What is Contemporary in Contemporary Dance? 

A DANCEHOUSE CONVERSATION SERIES

Linda Sastradipradja, Nareeporn Vachananda, Martin Hansen moderated by Carol Brown

Contemporary dance automatically positions dance within a certain notion of the contemporary within the very definition of the artform. And yet, dance holds time and remembers time differently. What exactly does it take to define a dance work as contemporary? Must a work refer to particular norms and traditions in order to qualify as contemporary, and in the case of dance, what would these be?Is contemporary dance the preserve of western lineages and traditions? How can, and do, other traditions equally claim the contemporary?

Recorded at the Victoria College of the Arts, 6 March 2020, Melbourne.

This podcast is part of the Dancehouse KCA Public Program 2020.