Ethos Formula: Liturgy and Rhetorics in the Work of Ted Shawn

Beginning with Giorgio Agamben’s alignment of ethics and potentiality, this essay questions the ethical dimension of gesture in the field of dance as an eminently potentiality-bound art form. This draws on Daniel Sibony’s concept of law and dance, according to which the body simultaneously repels an...

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Main Author: Alexander Schwan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Performance Philosophy 2017-06-01
Series:Performance Philosophy
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Online Access:https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/168