Theory

The Metaphors of Dance                                                        Opening hours of the library and mediacenter
                                                                                                      Handset curating focus Castling: Switzerland

A lecture series on broken words and hearts and legs

What, in the literal and figurative sense, does contemporary dance stand for, inasmuch as it constantly oscillates between still and fall stand and subjects us to the traps of thinking? And how do other disciplines such as theatre and media studies or philosophy translate dance today – in the context of thinking the choreographic? If from ancient to modern times and beyond, dance has figured as a metaphor of thinking, how do its conceptual figures mark contemporary dance and performance practice as a critical and desiring one, as a position and as restraint between Polis and Eros? One that hardly breaks legs any more, but still breaks hearts and words . . . .
The theory area of the Tanzquartier this season is under the sign of the metaphors of dance – and does dance make metaphors, or is a metaphor made of it? – in order to question and scrutinise them in a new lecture series and later series of publications: as if dance today – inasmuch as it twitches between literal and figurative, concrete and abstract,  – could stand for something without at the same time falling into the next.

Next lecture by Laurent Chétouane (F/D): Don’t bring everything close to us  Fri. 26 March 18.30 TQW / Studios (admission free)