The Language of Improvisation in Contemporary Dance

The aim of this doctoral research is to critically reflect upon and to make visible the manifold manifestations that are part of the field of improvisatory praxis in dance: techniques and technologies, in/outdoor laboratories, authorial research, somatic approaches, poetics of movement, scenic productions of artist collectives. Starting from the initial question: "Is improvisation (in contemporary dance) or does it operate as a language?", the general course of writing revisits the question of the principles/properties that prefigure a grammatical syntax of improvisation - a dynamic language that is always tied to its own praxis. In successive unfoldings, the multi-disciplinary relations with the other temporal arts (music and theatre), the domain of the ludic, the performative staging and the somotomotor-sensorial (aethic) readings linked to the role of the observer are revisited. The tone that guides the research is close to that of a literary essay, and was structured as a hypertext whose corpus is composed of three chapters and two audiovisual documentaries. Photographs and links from the computer network are added to the writing.