Orality at Work in the Body-Archive. A Case Study with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch's Italian Dancers

Abstract

This article relates an oral history research project conducted with the Italian members and ex members of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. The creation and the use of oral sources is questioned as being the software working in the body-archive considered as the hardware of dance memory and its transmission. Pina Bausch's post-memory is regarded as the active dialogue and interaction between macro and micro memories emerging from the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch dancers' bodies.