The Influence of François Delsarte’s Ideas on the Modernity of Dance

Authors

  • Maria Albertina Silva Grebler Universidade Federal da Bahia Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas

Keywords:

Performing Arts, Dance Theory, Dance History, Choreography, Dance Pedagogy

Abstract

This study discusses the influence François Delsarte’s ideas had on the pioneers of modern dance. Having rejected books on gestural rhetoric of his own time to conduct a rigorous study on human behavior in strong emotional situations, Delsarte established principles and systematized exercises that provided the pioneers of modern dance an alternative method of interpretation and creation, more centered on the subject and on their relationship with the environment, than on the imitation of traditional gestures. Delsarte’s system allowed modern creators to consider the took as a raw material for a research that was no longer defined by traditional techniques, but by the pursuit of a subjective form of corporeality.

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Author Biography

Maria Albertina Silva Grebler, Universidade Federal da Bahia Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas

Maria Albertina Silva Grebler é Bailarina, Coreógrafa, Fundadora da Cia de Dança Tran-Chan, Doutora em Artes Cênicas pela UFBA, Master of Fine Arts pela Temple University, Professora Associada da Escola de Dança e da Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas da Escola de Teatro e Dança da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Responsável pelo Projeto de pesquisa Coreografia e Corporeidade, coordenadora do Projeto de Extensão Pilates da Casa para os funcionários responsáveis pela limpeza e manutenção do prédio da Escola de Dança. Nos últimos anos publicou nos Anais da Abrace Verfremdung e Tanztheater (2004) e Corpo e encenação, os instrumento do ator e do bailarino (2007). Nos Cadernos do Gipe-Cit Dança Moderna e Tanztheater, a gênese de uma forma coreográfica (2008), e colaborou com o capítulo Pina Bausch e Maguy Marin, teatralidade e corporeidade contemporânea, no primeiro volume da coleção Dança Cênica publicado em Joinville pela Editora Letra d’Agua, em 2008.


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Published

2022-10-18

How to Cite

Grebler, M. A. S. (2022). The Influence of François Delsarte’s Ideas on the Modernity of Dance. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 2(2), 413–427. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/30306

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012): jul./dez. 2012

Section

François Delsarte's Pedagogy

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