Dancing Through the Archive: Researching René Highway’s Final Choreography: Prism, Mirror, Lens

Cara Mumford

doi:10.1386/public_00093_1

ISSN: 0845-4450
E-ISSN: 2048-6928

Dancing Through the Archive: Researching René Highway’s Final Choreography: Prism, Mirror, Lens
By Cara Mumford¹
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¹ ISNI: 0000000419369430 York University (M.F.A.)
Source: Public, Volume 33, Issue 65, Jun 2022, p. 75 - 85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/public_00093_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Jun 2022

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An essay exploring the last work by dancer and choreographer René Highway, in the context of indigenous art of his time, via the author’s own work as a filmmaker.

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Keyword(s): experimental film; Indigenous dance; Indigenous futurism; queer archives; queer performance; René Highway; Samuel Delaney

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