Deconstructing playing : A study on some actors' and dancers' gestures within the contemporary Flemish scene ; Défaire le jeu : étude à partir de quelques gestes d'acteur·rice·s et de danseur·euses dans la création contemporaine flamande

This study focuses on how contemporary performers play, be it in the fields of dance ortheater. Playing is here to be understood as a performing technique, that is to say the way of one’scorporeity becomes when meeting a score (should it be choreographic, verbal or hybrid). Thestatement of this thesis is to approach playing and the processes that underlies it without studying aparticular technique, a chosen pedagogical approach or a given aesthetic. That implies watching,observing and describing performers when they play, and investigating their personal ways ofbringing the gesture to life : t... Mehr ...