ABSTRACT
In June 1988 the dance performance group Rubicon performed on that same slope, dressed in yellow rain gear, despite the sunny day. Rubicon was established ten years earlier by a group of female choreographers and dancers. Rubicon performed a new dynamic and powerful relation to public space with a varying number of dancers, both female and male, nearly always in their yellow rain gear. The title Walk in the Steps of Rubicon was meant to be an engaging invitation to artists and researchers alike to rethink heritage and the archive, and establish walking as a literal and figurative, site-specific, and linguistic method. The chapter describes the interpretation of the city as an archive, made it possible to literally walk through it in a resonance between the past and the present. Resonance refers to the Latin re-sonare, re-sounding, sounding again, in an ongoing interaction between bodies, time, and space.
