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When the bodies speak. Trauma and memory work in dance performance Feathers

Trauma and memory work in dance performance Feathers

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https://doi.org/10.62779/puls.9.2024.23743

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dance, scenography, trauma, memory, Upsala Circus, materiality, kinaesthetic empathy

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Olga Nikolaeva

Dr. Olga Nikolaeva is an independent researcher and lecturer in Visual Communication at Linnæus University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Gothenburg, MA in Visual Culture from the University of Lund and Specialist Diploma in Art History from Russian State University for the Humanities. She recently completed her international postdoctoral research at National Collections of Music, Theatre and Dance, Stockholm and Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki. The postdoctoral research explored scenography of trauma in works of women theatre-makers in contemporary Russian theatre. She published articles in English and Russian languages. Her main research interest lies in the field of performance art and theatre, with special focus on scenography and materiality. She is interested in diverse artistic practices addressing trauma, traumatic and post-traumatic experience, and difficult past as well as working with concepts of empathic unsettlement and feminist ethic of care. She is currently working on developing research connected to application of holistic scenography to study of interventional protests. 

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2024-05-22

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Nikolaeva, O. (2024). When the bodies speak. Trauma and memory work in dance performance Feathers: Trauma and memory work in dance performance Feathers. Puls - Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, 9, 83–98. https://doi.org/10.62779/puls.9.2024.23743

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Vol. 9 (2024)

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