Contemporary Dance, from movement to gesture
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Abstract
Drawing on a fieldwork with contemporary dancers, this paper addresses the question of movement. It explores the notion of gesture beyond its visual form: what makes a gesture powerful? What gives its quality and performativity? The author investigates the entanglement of sensations, meaning, space, time and ecology. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, the anthropologist explored gestures through the metaphor of ‘shadow’ to avoid a dualism between an ‘outside’ form (the shape of gesture) and an ‘inside’ life (the interiority of dancers).
Date Issued
2021
Publication Type
Magazine Article
Subjects
Performativity of Gesture
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Contemporary Dance
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Sensations
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Meaning
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Shadow
Language(s)
en
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Project(s)
la corporéité dansante: imaginaire des chorégraphes suisses
Access(Rights)
restricted