The Space of the Body from Classical to Contemporary Dance

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_15637
dc.contributor.author	Barzon Lara
dc.title	The Space of the Body from Classical to Contemporary Dance. A Matter of Coloniality
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay aims to reveal the changes in the understanding of the space of the body in Western theatrical dance through decolonial lens. Arguing that the dancing body has fallen prey since the Renaissance to the rhetoric of modernity/coloniality, the following pages analyse the main stages from the establishment of the colonial body to recent decolonial experimentations showing how the myth of the efficient body-organism is gradually giving way to the chaos resulting from desire freed from colonial conditioning.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-12-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-11-02
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-675-6/the-space-of-the-body-from-classical-to-contempora/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-675-6/010
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-675-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Body
dc.subject	Coloniality
dc.subject	Cultural decolonialism
dc.subject	Dance
dc.subject	Modernity
dc.subject	Organism
dc.subject	Space

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The Space of the Body from Classical to Contemporary Dance

A Matter of Coloniality

Lara Barzon University of Warwick, UK; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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This essay aims to reveal the changes in the understanding of the space of the body in Western theatrical dance through decolonial lens. Arguing that the dancing body has fallen prey since the Renaissance to the rhetoric of modernity/coloniality, the following pages analyse the main stages from the establishment of the colonial body to recent decolonial experimentations showing how the myth of the efficient body-organism is gradually giving way to the chaos resulting from desire freed from colonial conditioning.

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Dec. 21, 2022

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Nov. 2, 2022

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978-88-6969-675-6

Keywords: Body • Cultural decolonialism • Dance • Modernity • Organism • Space • Coloniality

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