Drought and Rain
Re-creations in Vietnamese, cross-border heritage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rivka Syd Eisner (Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 798-817 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2013.818567 |
| OpenAlex | W2013190959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
The Drought and Rain dance trilogy, by Vietnamese–French choreographer Ea Sola, evokes memory, history and everyday practices through song, stylised gesture and stark, graceful images. The performances aim not to represent ancient and wartime Vietnamese pasts as much as call attention to the ways in which the present and past invigorate and co-create each other. The unsettled, recursive and processual nature of Ea Sola’s performances suggest it is necessary to periodically re-encounter the continuing legacies of violence. The performances enact a different form of historical (re)productivity, not predicated on a linear materialism, but based on processes of temporal turn and re-turn. I employ the most recent performance in the series, Drought and Rain 2011, as both subject and lens for exploring the unfinished dynamics of memory–history, and as a site and practice of cultural heritage. Embodying a hybrid mix of multiple re-performance categories, the Drought and Rain performances stretch current notions of heritage and are cross-border in terms of culture, nationality, arts genre and aesthetics and political implication. Primary points of focus include: the non-originality of performance, the unfinished nature of the past, and the way in which the Drought and Rain performances propose a counter-memory of the future
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arts · Trilogy · Vietnamese · Visual arts · Cambodian History and Society · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the 2003 Unesco Convention
Heritage
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Non-Representational Theory
Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
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Destination Culture
Gender Trouble
Perception Attack
Performing Pain-Taking and Ghostly Remembering in Vietnam
Toward an aesthetics of natural performance
Performing Remains
The Archive and the Repertoire
Heritage tourism in southeast Asia
The Affect Theory Reader
The Scope and Definitions of Heritage
Meaning in Motion
The Conservative Avant-Garde
The Murmur of Ruins A Cultural History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |