Dancing Structures: Lévi-Strauss, Alfred Gell and contemporary dance

Authors

  • Renato Jacques de Brito Veiga Universidade de São Paulo - USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v24i24p18-42

Keywords:

Contemporary dance, Creative processes, Structuralism, Alfred Gell, Lévi-Strauss.

Abstract

What is dance? Is the dancer who thinks their body or their body who thinks the dancer? How many bodies fit a body, how many people can be a body? Which body? Can we consider dance analogous to poetry, for transforming in the body what poetry does in verbal language? This essay is the result of an ethnographic immersion in the world of the rehearsals of Núcleo Artérias, contemporary dance group from São Paulo, directed by choreographer Adriana Grechi. My interlocutors here, besides Adriana, are five dancers and two works of contemporary dance,Fleshdance (2012) and Bananas (2013), which creation processes I accompanied entirely. The theoretical portion of this essay is the result of two readings in particular, Claude Lévi-Straus and Alfred Gell, which lead me to thinking/proposing a structural approach as a starting point to think contemporary dance.

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Published

2016-06-17

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 24 (2015)

Section

Articles and Essays

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How to Cite

Veiga, R. J. de B. (2016). Dancing Structures: Lévi-Strauss, Alfred Gell and contemporary dance. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 24(24), 18-42. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v24i24p18-42