What Happened to Dance?
Keywords:
body, movement, dance, kinaesthesia, modern and post-modern dance, contemporary choreographyAbstract
Dance is the art of movement. Contemporary choreography is concerned with dance making in an ever-expanding field: shifting environments, circumstances, and perspectives. As the traditional understanding of dance is questioned by new concerns and innovative practices, the new artistic strategies challenge the very specificities of dance (how we know it or how it is perceived by general audience) and affect, in return, the body, the dance, the practice of choreography and the experience of the viewers. In the present article I explore the transformations the occurred in the understanding of the body-movement bind with echoes in making, performing and reception of dance. I will refer only to the Western contemporary dance (Europe and USA), from beginning of the 20st century to the present day.
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