DANCE STUDIES – GROUP B – 2nd SESSION – OCTOBER 11, 2017
Translating a narrative or Dance as a text
Analogously to langue & parole: concept and realization > what do you translate if you consider the dance as a text?
Where does translation happen?
Choreographer (on notation) > Dancer > Movement > Audience
Transcription or transliteration (?)
Mats Ek:Sleeping Beauty (1996)
Philippe Decouflé: Le petit bal perdu (1994) (gestures + s’appellé, lait, la pelle)
Translating from one site to another
Screendance e.g. Philippe Decouflé: Codex (1987)
The screen/camera as a specific site. How would you translate the piece to a stage? What do you consider as the core to keep?