Vionnet, Claire (16 November 2019). The dancing funambulist (Unpublished). In: Gati Dance Forum. INDENT__ LABOUR, ECONOMY, AND IDENTITY The Precarity of Artistic Practice. New Delhi. 16.11.2019.
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Artists all share the dream of artistic creation as an act of freedom. But artistic creation emerges within a social, economical and political context that imposes constraints on creativity. Based on ten years of fieldwork in the independent contemporary dance scene (Switzerland, Scotland and Quebec), I explore the question of vulnerability in dancers/choreographers’ life.
Risks shape ordinary life as well as aesthetic activity. A production process is a fragile adventure which involves financial, relational, artistic and physical risks: financially when money is invested; relationally, as a company is a human venture (dancers who do not necessarily know each other must intimately collaborate together); artistically, as the choreographer copes with the pressure of providing an outcome at the end of the production process. Finally, risks of injuries haunt daily training. As a working tool, the dancing body also becomes vulnerable. This fragile act of creation is exacerbated by a precarious context in which dancers/choreographers struggle to find financial (and consequently emotional) security.
In this talk, I explore these various risks through the dance gesture of the fall. The act of creation is similar to a fall towards the ground: an act of falling into emptiness. With practice, dancers not only learn to fall without injuries, but also to stand up. I explore the idea of being a dancer in our contemporary world as an act of funambulism. A dancer/choreographer learns to find balance on a thread, to navigate between all these layers of risks and to use vulnerability as a creative impulse.
Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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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 |
Funders: |
[UNSPECIFIED] Pro Helvetia |
Projects: |
[UNSPECIFIED] Pro Helvetia- Indent New Delhi |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Claire Vionnet |
Date Deposited: |
23 Nov 2022 15:04 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:29 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Vulnerability, Precarity, Contemporary Dance, Risk |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/175097 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175097 |
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