Nudity as a unifying figure. Uses of the naked body in French choreography starting from the 1990s

Giuseppe Burighel

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/11813

Authors

Giuseppe Burighel University of Tours and Paris 8 University

Giuseppe Burighel is PhD en esthétique, sciences et technologies des arts at the University of Paris 8 and PhD of visual, performative and media arts at the University of Bologna, following a doctoral thesis on Pratiques et formes des discours dans l'art chorégraphique contemporain. Since 2010, he has lived in France (Tours) where he has been teaching both in secondary education and university (University of Tours and University of Paris 8). An active member of the aCD (Association Chercheurs en danse), his research focuses on the history of dance and theatre, contemporary dramaturgy and sociology of art.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/11813

Abstract

The essay examines the aesthetic research carried out over the last thirty years in France by an archipelago of dancers, on the image of the body and the uses of the naked body in particular. More precisely, it is a study that provides valid examples about the choreographers have given shape to real figures of the nude, through precise postures (horizontality, verticality and reversals) and disappearances of the body, following the idea of an object body, or instead, a subject body. The hypothesis explored here is that the nude in dance has become above all a figure of style, able to federate artists around common practices and shared poetics.