Il corpo come costrutto: coordinate filosofiche per una epistemologia della danza contemporanea

Tobia Rossetti

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/14135

Authors

Tobia Rossetti Independent researcher

Tobia Rossetti holds a bachelor's degree in DAMS at the University of Turin in History of Dance and a master's degree in CAM at the same University with a thesis in Dance Studies entitled Theories of dance between philosophy and aesthetics. An epistemological survey from modern to contemporary (supervisor Prof. Alessandro Pontremoli). Since 2018 he has been teaching History of Twentieth Century Dance in Genoa at a course for dancers supported by MiBACT. He was tutor of History of Music at his University and archivist for the MITO SettembreMusica festival. He collaborated with Patrizia Veroli and Maria Flora Giubilei on an exhibition about Isadora Duncan and the Italian figurative arts presented in Florence and Rovereto. He has written about contemporary dance for klpteatro.it.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/14135

Abstract

The paper intends to provide the philosophical coordinates to address contemporary dance from an epistemological point of view. In the first place the two main epistemes of the body that informed dance during the Twentieth Century are traced. A way of seeing and describing the body that tends to be ontologizing belongs to modern dance, while a constructivist way to the contemporary one. In a second moment the philosophies of three authors of postmodernity are presented, who have pronounced themselves in a significant way on the body, contributing to radically change its statute. These radical and innovative theories, coming from post-structuralism and feminism, would also have had significant repercussions on the choreographic aesthetics of the late Twentieth Century and beyond.