Between mujahidins and ghosts: improvisation and archive-bodies as a microcosm of the Syrian conflict

Authors

  • Sílvia Raposo FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia)

Keywords:

Performance, memory, Syrian civil war

Abstract

The present paper suggests an analysis of theatrical dance departing from the binomial performance / politics, through which bodies can be perceived as priviledged places to examine power, since a dancing body is always poli cally invested. To achieve it, we intend to contextualize theatrical-dance after the shows Before they kill the elephants, by Olga Roriz’s Company, and I am Mediterranean, by Lifes from A to Z’s Company, following both its artistic path and the analysis of their choreographical and scenic languages, in order to achieve an understanding of the dancing body as a body that suffers the actions of power connections. Studied as a site of tension and clash, developing articulations with memory and oblivion within a sensory-corporeal game, the body is approached as archive and place of memory and resistence, reinforcing its percep on as a privileged spot to inspect power.

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Published

2018-04-05

Issue

No. 3

Section

Artigos

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