A Lecture on Post-Structuralist Philosophy to Understand Contemporary Choreographers like Jérôme Bel (and Why You Are Important)
Gurur Ertem
You think, therefore I am
Ivana Müller, Under My Skin
Bel has been an influential choreographer for the last decade, and probably the most imitated one, as someone who in some ways, set up a “fashion”. Although I do not invite anyone to enjoy categorically his counterparts in the so called “conceptual dances” which circulate in Europe nowadays which explore similar choreographic concerns (or claim to do so), I bow down to Bel who is quite successful in making his statements concerning common-sensical ways of “doing dance” clear in a simple, craft-ful, cunning and enjoyable way – even when it implies doing absolutely nothing.
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