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Der Virtuose geht: Waslaw Nijinskys L'Après-midi d'un faune
Ist Teil von
Arcadia, 2008-07, Vol.43 (2), p.237
Ort / Verlag
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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This article explores aspects of Vaslav Nijinsky's first choreography, which have so far received little sustained critical attention. The celebrated dancer's refusal to stage his own virtuoso skills allows us to investigate his decision to base his choreography largely on the analytical de- and reconstruction of walking. This opening of a "kinetic unconscious", this move towards what is called here "microscopic virtuosity", is related to other contemporary theoretical, scientific, and literary explorations: Walter Benjamin's "optical unconscious", research into human movements and gestures, Paul Valery's writings on dance, and an account of foot fetishism in Wilhelm Jensens novella "Gradiva". We may thus take stock of the wide-ranging aesthetic ramifications of Nijinskys specific and groundbreaking inclusion of forms of stillness into dance. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]