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Dance Location: Lake Minnetonka Session Chair: Stefanie Bilidas, University of Texas at Austin | |
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A Phenomenological Perspective on Choreomusical Space-Time Indiana University-Bloomington Time is a fundamental preoccupation among phenomenologists, especially musical phenomenologists, since music is often described as a temporal art. Discussions on musical space frequently treat musical space as virtual, imaginary space. What happens when dance is added to music, so that physical space and motion are involved? In this paper, I give an account of space and time in dance and music as they interact in a choreography. I adapt, synthesize, and repurpose ideas from philosophers and theorists featured in dance and musical phenomenologies, such as Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ernst Cassirer, Susanne K. Langer, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Rudolf Laban, Ernst Kurth, and Victor Zuckerkandl. I argue that physical and virtual forces in dance and music generate a flow where space and time are mutually implicated, creating what I call “choreomusical space-time.” This flow is continuous and heterogeneous and cannot be interrupted without changing the quality of the flow altogether. The spectator participates in shaping the flow by deciding on where to focus their attention, such as by empathizing with individual dancers, taking a macroscopic view of the overall pattern, or switching between the two. Following the lead of Cassirer, who used mathematical concepts to analogize phenomena in the arts and humanities, I compare processes in dance and music to vectors, calculus, and other mathematical concepts. To illustrate my ideas on choreomusical space-time, I analyze dance-music interactions in choreographies in neoclassical ballet and modern dance. I conclude by discussing what new insights into phenomenology dance and music can in turn bring us. | |