Contemporary Dance Performance in Museum Space: Features of Choreography of K. Le Roi and T. Segal

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the author’s approaches to working with the choreographic vocabulary of the leading representatives of contemporary dance performative practices in the museum space, K. Le Roy and T. Segal. Research methodology. A theoretical approach was applied, thanks to which the prerequisites, contexts and spread of modern dance, its relationship with other types of art and new art forms that are born in this interaction were considered; historical and cultural method, which contributed to the consideration of the issue in historical retrospective and at the present stage. typological method, method of comparative analysis, method of art historical analysis. Scientific novelty. The phenomenon of the spread of modern dance beyond the traditional stage space is considered through the prism of interdisciplinary practice of dance performance and the features of its representation in the museum space are outlined; the specifics of the introduction and presence of modern dance and museum space are investigated; the key characteristics of modern dance performance by K. Le Roy and T. Segal are identified. Conclusions. Despite the active process of blurring the boundaries between modern dance and modern dance performance, the first focuses on movement, while the second is more focused on live presence and specific thinking in plastic forms, a new bodily representation built on a complex philosophical-metaphorical and conceptual-affective interaction with the viewer. Based on the art historical analysis of performative museum practices by K. Le Roy and T. Segal, it was found that the main emphasis of the directors is on experiments in the deconstruction of corporeality, which is manifested in the attraction to contortionist aesthetics, metamorphoses of everyday, mechanical and robotic plasticity (K. Le Roy), the author’s reconstruction of canonical movements of modern and postmodern dance, an emphasis on slow plasticity, the synthesis of dance plasticity with sounds and interactive choreography (T. Segal). Modern dance performance in the museum space encourages looking beyond what is presented in verbalised and visualised form, questioning what was taken for granted, observing and experiencing one’s own actions through multidimensional analysis – space, time, energy, rethinking and expanding one’s own visions, discovering new dimensions of human experience.