Body and Interdisciplinarity. From Performance Art to a Choreographic Body Installation

Authors

  • Alba Simina Stanciu Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37130/h9vfvv79

Keywords:

performance, body, interdisciplinarity, dance, body-installation, anatomic theatre, cruelty

Abstract

The true coherence of a performance depends on a structured and efficient vision, which can be symbolically reduced to three “key moments,” each having an essential role in the relationship between the “living body” and its connection with performance, which is more and more defined by interdisciplinary coherences. This paper starts with the American experiments of the 1960s and 1970s, which envisioned the “body” not only as mere “material” for feminist manifestos but also as a medium suitable for achieving the new goals set forth by performance art. The supportive environment around the Judson Dance Theatre created the necessary milieu for the convergence of body, postmodern dance, and visual arts. This openness towards experiment had important consequences for the next stage, the “Flemish wave,” and subsequently on the works of the German choreographer, Sasha Waltz.

Author Biography

  • Alba Simina Stanciu, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

    Alba Simina Stanciu is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Letters and Arts’ Department of Theatre at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, where she teaches theoretical courses on contemporary performing arts, dance history, and aesthetics. She graduated from the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca and holds an M.A. in Philosophy of Culture and Performing Arts from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. In 2011, she earned a PhD in Philology from Babeș-Bolyai University with a thesis on Don Juan. The Donjuanism. Theatricality and Mannerism. Currently, she is pursuing a second doctoral degree with a thesis in performance studies, entitled Opera, a Stage Director’s Performance, at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. She is the author of Ritual and Image in Contemporary Dance (ULBS Press 2016), Body, Space, and Gesamtkunstwerk. From the Space of Choreography towards the Architecture of Movement and Body (ULBS Press 2018), The New Performance. Collaborative Strategies and Interdisciplinary Compositions (ULBS Press 2020), which propose a theoretical approach to theatre, opera, choreography, and their performative evolution in the 20th and 21st centuries by corroborating various theories from the fields of visual arts, theatre reforms, and the avant-gardes. She also publishes essays and theoretical studies.

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Published

2024-07-15

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2 (2023): Greek Theatre from Antiquity to Modern Times. Trends and considerations / Body Politics in Contemporary Transdisciplinary Artistic Research / Film and Theatre Pedagogy

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Stanciu, A. S. (2024). Body and Interdisciplinarity. From Performance Art to a Choreographic Body Installation. CONCEPT, 27(2), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.37130/h9vfvv79