The Diagram on Stage

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_3593
dc.title	The Diagram on Stage. Movement, Gesture and Writing
dc.contributor.author	Paoletti Catherine
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2020/1/le-diagramme-en-scene/
dc.description.abstract	From the diagram, which inscribes the line (διά-γράφειν), to the choreography (χορεία-γραφία), which inscribes the choir into the written form, we remark but a short step from the scène of the dance to the scène of the writing. The writing of dance, and likewise the writing of the body, makes the invisible visible within the movement. Bridging between notation, as capacity for mobilisation of new intuitions, and diagrammatization of forms and movements to compel the thought of new gestures, the diagram stands out as a scène or ‘picture’ whose axes (points, lines, arrows, circles, volumes…) simultaneously structure mobility in order to grasp the pulsating movement. The twentieth-century artistic avant-gardes will not remain indifferent to this ideography that, through leap and condensation, makes the materialization of the idea, the idea in the writing, possible.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 29 \| December 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-11
dc.dateAccepted	2020-08-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-08-06
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2020/01/011
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Dance
dc.subject	Dance
dc.subject	Diagram
dc.subject	Diagram
dc.subject	Form
dc.subject	Form
dc.subject	Gesture
dc.subject	Gesture
dc.subject	Ideography
dc.subject	Ideography
dc.subject	Movement
dc.subject	Movement
dc.subject	Writing
dc.subject	Writing

Research Article
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Movement, Gesture and Writing

Catherine Paoletti École normale supérieure de Paris, France

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abstract

From the diagram, which inscribes the line (διά-γράφειν), to the choreography (χορεία-γραφία), which inscribes the choir into the written form, we remark but a short step from the scène of the dance to the scène of the writing. The writing of dance, and likewise the writing of the body, makes the invisible visible within the movement. Bridging between notation, as capacity for mobilisation of new intuitions, and diagrammatization of forms and movements to compel the thought of new gestures, the diagram stands out as a scène or ‘picture’ whose axes (points, lines, arrows, circles, volumes…) simultaneously structure mobility in order to grasp the pulsating movement. The twentieth-century artistic avant-gardes will not remain indifferent to this ideography that, through leap and condensation, makes the materialization of the idea, the idea in the writing, possible.

Published

Dec. 11, 2020

Accepted

Aug. 30, 2020

Submitted

Aug. 6, 2020

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Keywords: Dance • Gesture • Movement • Form • Ideography • Diagram • Writing

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