Tirsdag d. 4. august og onsdag d. 5. august kl. 19-22
Jalal Toufic er vært og arrangør af seminaret: “Mens jeg så en skøn film om dans, oplevede jeg en danser gå ind i et maleri. I betragtning af at menneskelige kroppe ikke kan gøre dette, skal bevægelsen så ses som metaforisk, symbolsk eller drømmeagtig? Det var intet af dette. Det slog mig som et faktum, et æstetisk faktum. Eftersom det skete, og eftersom normale menneskelige kroppe ikke kan gå ind i malerier, bliver spørgsmålet: hvilken slags krop produceres gennem dans og kan gøre dét jeg lige så: gå ind i et maleri? Vi ser nærmere på forholdet mellem dansen og filmmediet, med dets ‘forandringer af sted og fokus’ (Walter Benjamin); danserens fastfrysning i en tilstand af potentille muligheder for alle slags ekstraordinære bevægelser (baglæns i tid bevægelse, nedsat bevægelse) og rumlige spil mellem de flade, ofte malede baggrunde og danserens rumskabende bevægelser.”
Jalal Toufic er tænker og billedkunstner.
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Tuesday 4 August and Wednesday 5 August 7-10pm
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Jalal Toufic, host of the seminar: “While watching a great dance film, I witnessed a dancer enter a painting. Taking into account that human bodies cannot do this, was that movement metaphorical, symbolic or oneiric? It was none of these. It struck me as a fact, an aesthetic fact. Consequently, since it happened and since normal human bodies cannot enter paintings, the question becomes: what kind of body is produced by dance and can do what I just witnessed, enter a painting? We will study the relation of dance to cinema, this medium of sudden ‘changes of place and focus’ (Walter Benjamin); the freezing of dancers, which, as the genetic element of movement, is a condition of possibility for all sorts of extraordinary movements (backward in time motion, slow motion …); the fractional dimensions of the altered space of dance with its flat, often painted backdrops and its zones of spatial inexistence; and space-creation by the dancer.”
Jalal Toufic is a thinker and an artist.