Affirming versus Relating: Steps around, toward, and away from Dance and Performance Art

This essay establishes distinctions between dance, an art of affirmation and convergence, and performance art, an art of relation and divergence. While dance generates new dimensions of time and space, performance art reconfigures the various elements it employs. Thus, in dance, interpretation alway...

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Published in:Dance chronicle 2017-09, Vol.40 (3), p.353-373
Main Author: Brandão, Mariana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dance
Modernism
Performance art
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Summary:This essay establishes distinctions between dance, an art of affirmation and convergence, and performance art, an art of relation and divergence. While dance generates new dimensions of time and space, performance art reconfigures the various elements it employs. Thus, in dance, interpretation always corresponds to an authorial role, evident in the dancer's quality of presence, unique to each performance. This problem engaged modernists, who advocated the use of the machine or puppet in place of flesh-and-blood performers, distancing dance from the concerns of Futurists and performance artists.
ISSN:0147-2526
1532-4257
DOI:10.1080/01472526.2017.1373521