Contemporary Dance, from movement to gesture

Vionnet, Claire (2021). Contemporary Dance, from movement to gesture. ICA. Movement(1)

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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).

Item Type:

Newspaper or Magazine Article

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Network (IRN)

UniBE Contributor:

Vionnet, Claire

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
700 Arts

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Projects:

Projects 0 not found.

Language:

English

Submitter:

Claire Vionnet

Date Deposited:

23 Nov 2022 08:14

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:28

Additional Information:

semi-scientific journal of Itiwana

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Performativity of Gesture, Contemporary Dance, Sensations, Meaning, Shadow

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/175028

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175028

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