Choreographic poetry: performing text & words

You will investigate the use of dialogue, texts, words to influence and enhance performance, whether it is dance, physical theatre or visual art. We trace the history of choreographers, photographers, painters, performance makers using narrative texts, speech, prose, drama, poetry, or introducing abstract words, voice into their works. We discuss the model of language and linguistics within dance and performance from a structuralist and post-structuralist concept, challenge the connection between language and body, text and movement. In the form of solo and group performances, you will experiment the use of text, song and voice, and observe what it brings to the performance, how it modifies the relationship with the public, and how it influences the piece.​

Texts, extracts:

• Roland Barthes: “The Pleasure of the Text”, 1975
• Deborah Hay: “Text, choreography, and performance”, 2010
• Magali Nachtergael et Lucille Toth: “Danse contemporaine et littérature, entre fictions et performances écrites”, 2015

​Video - © Sukanto Debnath, 2015.

Photo - © Dávid Biró, 2015.