"Time" and "Contemporaneity" in Dance: Cesena and the Dawn of Bodies [Spanish]

Authors

  • Iván Jiménez Paris Est-Créteil Val de Marne

Abstract

In this paper, we examine some uses of the concepts of « time » and « contemporary » in dance (Louppe, Pouillaude, Ginot, among others) based on a study about Cesena (2011), a piece by Anne Teresa De Keesmaeker created with musical director Björn Schmelzer. By focusing our analysis on several aspects – the singing, the link between the gestures and the light, the problem of the community, the reference to historic medieval past, the dramaturgy... – we intend to bring to the foreground some senses which this work produce as an scenic event : the alteration of the european concept of time, the poetics of waiting and the distancing from the requirements of speed – the « presentism » (Hartog) – of our present time.

Published

2015-12-04

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