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  • Short talk for ‘Dance, Diaspora and the role of the Archive’; A conference by State of Emergency in Partnership with Society for Dance Research, University of Bedfordshire

    As I am sure has been covered much today, in one way or another, archives and archivists are not impartial, neutral or objective. I think that archives have the power to make memory and the power to withhold or forget memories. Archivists Joan M Schwartz and Terry Cook have written that archives ‘have been about power – about maintaining power,…

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