Memory, Dance and Archive: How an Archived Performance Inspired the Creation of the Dancefilm Does the Dancing Have to Stop?

The aim of this article is to delve into memory and dance, show how the archive can contribute definitions dance. It offers a personal journey records my dance career, where I revisit reclaim past framed through perspective mature dancer now aged in sixties. Using medium dancefilm, position observer, dancer, recaller, bearer archive. experiment with traces past, overlaid present, introduce dialogue about investigation address aging body as site Through research, assert that housed within body. am using history memories vehicle issue from Western context.