Article Title：Decolonising human exhibits: dance, re-enactment and historical fiction
Abstract：
This article focuses on decolonising exhibition practices and colonial archives. It begins with a survey of literature on nineteenth-century colonial exhibitions and world's fairs as a cultural practice and the complicity of academic disciplines such as anthropology and ethnology in promoting violent forms of pedagogy. Next, the article examines the failed Liberty's 1885 exhibition in London, specifically analyzing the nautch dancers whose moving bodies both engaged and disrupted the scopophilia framing such live human exhibits. In the final section, the article examines how reimagining the Liberty's nautch experiences by embodying archival slippages might be a usefully anarchic way of exhuming the memories of those dancers forgotten by both British arid Indian nationalist history. The article delineates the structural limitations of reenactments, a current trend in contemporary Euro-American dance, and it argues that historical fiction as a corporeal methodology might be a viable decolonising strategy for dance studies.
Keywords: Dance; nautch; South Asia; colonial exhibitions; human zoos; race relations; re-enactment
DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2019.1568666
Source：SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA
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