"Le sens de la danse. Dance research et pratiques transmediales / The Sense of Dance. Dance Research and Transmedial Practices"

Contemporary dance is a field full of interpretative possibilities for a Semiotics interested in dynamic and performance open texts connected to theatre practice and/or multimedia. If dance manifests itself as a choreographic discourse/text formed through a creative process then, in order to investigate expression and contents in their narrative or plastic nature, it will be appropriate to take into consideration a series of issues related to the dimension of the senses, but also the figurative and the interpretative dimensions, from the point of view of dance main semiotic actors (dancer, choreographer, audience). Dance as a process, dance as discourse, text analysis, notation, technology, translation, arts, body, are therefore only some of the key words used in this monographic issue, together with the notions of performance - intended both as discourse and process - in the multiple semantic possibilities of a word in which spectacular conceptions and more semiotic ones, although overlapping, are all predominantly considered in virtue of live execution.Nowadays, most of live contemporary dance might be not so different from high technological dance performances, either in their video or digital versions. This requires a renewed investigation of notions such as enunciation and utterance, as referring to entities of bodies in motion whose texture can be thick and heavy or, on the contrary, light, virtual and technological. In addition, among the many visions of the dancing body offered by dance, there is that of a body wrapping identities and bearing multiple subjectivities, and there is also that of a body which is, in essence, the somatic substance of motion, characterized by variable figurative plasticity, often altered when encountering technological manipulations.-- -----La danse contemporaine représente un noyau de possibilités interprétatives pour une sémiotique intéressée aux textualités ouvertes, dynamiques et performatives, liées à des pratiques théâtrales et /ou multi médiales Si la danse se manifeste dans un discours/texte chorégraphique qui prend forme à travers le procès créatif, pour en explorer expression et contenus, narratifs ou bien plastiques, il s’agit de considérer une séries de problèmes qui sont liés à la dimension du sensible mais aussi du figural et qui vont s’ajouter à celle interprétative de la danse même, à travers ses acteurs principaux (danseurs, chorégraphes, spectateurs). Processualité, discours de la danse, analyse textuelle, notation, sont alors autant de mots-clés de ce numéro, sans oublier naturellement la notion de performance, pensée soit comme discours soit comme procès, dans les diverses possibilités sémantiques de ce terme dont les acceptions spectaculaires se superposent avec d’autres plus proprement sémiotiques mais toujours reliées aux modalités spécifiques d’exécution des arts vivants.