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Disremembered Cabaret Histories

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In the 1970s & 1980s, many British dancers, including myself and my peers, worked abroad, taking performing jobs as a means of acquiring an Equity card, for work security and a regular wage, and/or to see the world. This period of recent dance history has yet to be documented and is the focus of my doctoral research. Using autoethnography to recall my life working in a small touring cabaret dance company in Italy, I resist challenge and queer the patriarchal discourse of conventional academic narratives. My method identifies an original approach to academic writing that draws on and celebrates cabaret, to create a doctoral thesis for the twenty-first century.

Keywords: Autoethnography ; Dance ; Entertainment ; Fin-de-siècle Paris ; Hauntology ; Lived Experience ; Magical Realism ; Magical realism ; Memoir ; Original approaches to academic writing ; Performance ; Queer method

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  27. Price, David (1998), CANCAN!, London: Cygnus Arts.
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  31. The Stage (n.d.), ‘Home Page’, The Stage website, www.thestage.co.uk. Accessed 23 July 2022 .

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