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Still Dancing

sculpture by Dennis Oppenheim

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ123472804 ↗
Source-derived summary

Still Dancing is a sculpture by American artist Dennis Oppenheim, installed in Toronto's Distillery District, in Ontario, Canada.

Editorial summary

“Still Dancing” enters the record as sculpture by Dennis Oppenheim. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Still, Dancing and sculpture can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current 18-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Still, Dancing and sculpture.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Still Dancing” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Still, Dancing and sculpture provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q123472804. Authority coordinates are 43.650, -79.359. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Still Dancing”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Still Dancing primary sources, Still Dancing archive and Still research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Still Dancing”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Still Dancing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.