Danser parmi les œuvres d’art. Deux créations site-specific d’Hofesh Schechter et de Saburo Teshigawara

We will examine two recent site-specific dance creations: Hofesh Schechter’s Coda and Saburo Teshigawara’s Pointed Peak. The description of the experience of these performances for an “ethnographer” viewer will lead us to use the semiotic theories of corporality, of “perceptive” mediality, and the theory of intersemiotic translation, as well as the socio-semiotics of risk and interactions. The inter-sensory and intermedial translatability among different systems of meaning can be analyzed “below” the manifest level of the signs, namely in the conflict zone of the figural tensions. At a more global level, socio-semiotic interaction regimes explain performance-driven micro-narratives among museum spaces, works of art, and viewers, in a dynamic and sensitive adjustment of forces.