12/19/2023 0 Comments Vimeo nosIn d’Indicibles Violences, choreographed by Claude Brumachon, the body of the dancers is a virtuosic, sporty, agile body. Annie Suquet, “Le corps dansant, un laboratoire de la perception”, in Histoire du corps – Les mutations du regard, Le XXe siècle, Seuil, 2006, p. It will also look at how the body dances, whether it is an "expert" or an amateur, and the forms of its presence on stage. But it is also the way of showing a body that changes: from complete nudity to the completely hidden or covered body. This thema of “corps dansants” (dancing bodies) provides an opportunity to question the variety of bodies offered by contemporary dance, from the glorious bodies to the “ungainly” bodies, and the greater or lesser visibility of certain bodies. Depending on his style and his aesthetic concerns, he will not use the same bodies or thus the same performers. He seeks to cultivate his awareness of his own body, while the choreographer seeks to draw on the body's different competences. Moreover, the practice, the perception and the experimentation with the body are decisive factors in the work of the contemporary dancer. They want to break away from the established ideals and to question what defines, but also limits, the “dancing body”. We now favour a body that is less constrained, able to engage in multiple experiences.Ĭontemporary choreographers and dancers seek to subvert an overly trained dancing body. This process echoes the transformations in the representations of the body in industrialised societies from the 1960s onwards. It's about encouraging an “exploration of the body as a sensitive and thinking material”. But we have no control over what people are looking at.One of the issues in contemporary dance consists of seeing, approaching and working with the body differently than in the past. "Sometimes as a man you are quite happy for people to see your penis but other days, or in other temperatures, you are not OK. "The human body is pretty weird, really," Mack says. Despite all that jiggling flesh and perfectly tended pubic hair, it's not meant to titillate – oddly enough, they'd be more alluring in their undies. Jopp leads me by the hand to a room where dancers are in flux before a Francis Bacon triptych. Modigliani's Seated Nude with Necklace? Or the pair of lithe women intertwined on a bench nearby?Īfter the first blush of full-frontal nudity, the dancers seem to meld with the other artworks on show. The crowd at this week's dress rehearsal was warned "don't touch the art unless the art touches you". At one special sold-out show for adults-only, arranged at the request of a naturist group, the audience will be nude too. The 18 evening performances, from January 7, are recommended for people aged 16 and older. The Sydney Festival show is a celebration of the unclothed body. But then I go home and see myself naked in the mirror and go 'My legs are hairy' and 'I have cellulite' and 'Did I pull my stomach in?'" "While I am doing it I don't really feel embarrassed or out of place, there is no sense of being judged. The thought of being nude in public is worse than actually getting your kit off, she adds. "It was nice when people turned around and saw my face and didn't just look at my tits," she says later, after slipping into a light summer dress. In a room titled The private nude, dancer Fiona Jopp, 30, twists and turns her taut skin by a Pierre Bonnard painting of his wife in a bath. During the rehearsal disrobed dancers move among the artworks, their fit young bodies in harmony with paintings by Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud and Henri Matisse. The Sydney Festival show is a collaboration between the Sydney Dance Company and the art gallery as part of their exhibition Nude: art from the Tate collection. Nude Live: Sydney Dance Company members Dave Mack, Fiona Jopp, Olivia Kingston, Zachary Lopez and Izzac Carroll perform at the Art Gallery of NSW.
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