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Embodying a Site

Choreographing Prambanan

Alessandra Lopez Y Royo

AHRB Research Centre for Cross-cultural Music and Dance Performance, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

The article re-engages with the 9th century CE temple complex of Prambanan, in Central Java, as a performance locus, discussing the different phases of a bodily interaction with the site from the reconstitution of its dance units, retrievable from the dance reliefs of the main temple, to an exploration of the temple–dance–site connection. The author proposes that archaeology can be conceived and experienced as an embodied and performative practice: the Prambanan site has been incorporated in the archaeological process of dance movement reconstitution and its re-embodiment. This in turn has enabled a choreography of the site through an exploration of the architecture/dance relationship, mutually inscribed as a corporeality.

Key Words: archaeology • architecture • choreography • dance-unit • embodiment • performative • reconstitution

Journal of Material Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1, 31-48 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1359183505050093
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