Unbearable Lightness of the Body

Without imagination, we won’t be able to reclaim the wide spectrum of bodily visibility – i.e., in dance, movement, moving beyond cultural normativity or simple play. In this section, we can see and imagine both the “other” female bodies whom Emilie Jouvet, a French feminist artist, have been showing for years, and imaginary, surreal bodies in the work of the Brazilian artist, Marcelo DaVill. We will also look at the “choreographic turn” in contemporary art, in a work about dance, sex, and pleasure presented by Michael Portnoy and produced by Steirischer Herbst. After all, pleasure is super important: we all have the right to pleasure, and we all have the right to enjoy our bodies, even if some still cannot imagine this to be true.