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Article: Ecrire la danse.
- Article from:
- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Edited by Alain Montandon (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 1999) Pp. 288.
In the famous passage in "Ballets" devoted to the metaphorical value of the dancer, a "poeme degage de tout appareil du scribe," symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme envisions dance as a space of ideal writing. (1) Corporeality and textuality have long been intertwined. From ancient writings on dance to modern texts by Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Valery and others, dance has been understood as a poetic space. (2) Ecrire la danse, a collection of articles on dance edited by Alain Montandon, takes up the complex relationship between dance and writing (choreo-graphy). A highly ...