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Choreologica articles
Choreologica, the journal of the European Association for Dance History, aims to provide a forum for historical and theoretical explorations of dance histories and practices. These may include analyses of individual works or investigations, whether they may be monographic, contextual or interdisciplinary. Submissions may address topics ranging from past dance practices to contemporary themes.
Following our new resolution, all past and future issues of Choreologica will be made fully accessible to the general public, no longer requiring a membership for access.
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We will gradually make each single paper available for individual download and provide a search facility for easily locating papers by author or keyword. Until that is fully functional, please browse in this page the new papers published from December 2024.
Choreodromocracy: (to)dance like a slow fight zone in the face of speed’s war
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by Thiago Alixandre
Abstract:
There is such an explicit relationship between movement and war that, for this very reason, sometimes it becomes implicit: this extreme exposure numbs us to the point that we fail to realize the relationship between movement and war, speed and power.
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War depends on movements. More than that: war depends on fast movements.
Perhaps the relationship between war and speed is still not as visible as it should be even though the human body is the battlefield in which this relationship takes place, ‘detonating’ processes, ‘exploding’ symptoms, ‘targeting’ cognition and ‘annihilating’ subjectivity.
This paper proposes the hypothesis that the body, and specially a dancing one, can contribute to the expansion of this visibility. We will also try to demonstrate how choreographers have experimented with certain procedures as antidotes to this problem throughout dance history.
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