Extending the Threshold of the Danceable. Posture and Voice in Yasmine Hugonnet’s Choreographic Research

Abstract

This essay traces the artistic trajectory of the Swiss choreographer Yasmine Hugonnet, whose research on presence unfolds territories varied by the ductility of the body and the plasticity of the phonatory-laryngeal system. Dance, understood as a poetic reasoning through dynamic postures germinated from each other, is the result of a process that becomes capable of undoing perceptive categories. The relationship between posture and voice reveals a "sonic body", a corporeality immersed in a space of acoustic suggestions that combines inner resonances, imagination and biology. The materiality of the voice and its irreducible externality are for Hugonnet «ways to travel in the flesh», activate energy currents within the body, and articulate an inorganic corporeality.