Exercise: Les Noces: translation as a mode of performative postproduction and the historical dialogue between dance and visual art

Abstract

This research proposes ‘translation,’ as opposed to other appropriating strategies, as a theory and practice which invites the possibility of performative postproduction throughout the making, performing and attending of dance.Translation theory is proposed as a model for reading dance works as well as a choreographing tool for making postproduction works which use historical citation and/ or are hybrid choreographic projects between forms and mediums. In this thesis, translation theory is used to discuss Bronislava Nijinska’s Les Noces (1923) as a modernist choreographic work which renews notions of dance and movement through consideration of the project of the Russian avant-garde. Subsequently, translation theory forms the choreographic method through which I am able to translate Les Noces into Exercise: Les Noces (2017).Exercise: Les Noces is not just a historical project, and thus, it is not a reconstruction, revival or reworking of the original ballet. Exercise: Les Noces is not a ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/53304
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/53304
ND
53304
Alternative title
Άσκηση: Les Noces: η μετάφραση ως τρόπος επιτελεστικής μεταπαραγωγής και ο ιστορικός διάλογος μεταξύ των τεχνών του χορού και των εικαστικών
Author
Koukoli, Eleni (Father's name: Thomas)
Date
2017
Degree Grantor
City University of London
Committee members
Kelleher Joe
Bailes Sara-Jane
Kartsaki Eirini
Clark Jonathan
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsArts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music) ➨ Arts, interdisciplinary
Keywords
Translation; Performativity; Benjamin, Walter; Derrida, Jacques; Post-production; Practice based research
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
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