Coropolitiche della modernità. Collettivi danzanti e comunità desideranti

Abstract

The paper analyzes the metaphorological and kinetic history of the choral and orchestic paradigms which the Western imagination tributed with the faculty of representing  figuratively, and in many cases of realizing performatively, a wide range of utopias, fantasies and ideologies of "togetherness". From the semantics of the ancient choir/chorus  as an actant and acted space of flesh to the most recent formats of musicalisation of collective behaviour, it's possible to deduce a "choropolitical" chronicle of social metaphors strongly characterised by the continuity of certain ideological imprintings, and by the complicated entanglement between choreographic creation and the strategical crafting of a collective identity.