Nowa rola przedmiotu w choreografiach współczesnych: Witalistyczna materialność w twórczości Aleksandry Borys

Abstract

This article attempts to broaden the Polish theater discourse into analyzing modern choreography practices, focused on the use of objects in dance performances and exploring new ways of understanding materiality. The considerations are based on the assumption that matter is perceived by the creators of new choreography as an active factor which can be incorporated in the artistic process in various ways. The author presents and interprets two artistic projects by Aleksandra Borys, the installation Air Mapping and the choreography Dancing the Dance, and juxtaposes them with Karen Barad’s theory of agential realism. He aims to demonstrate that in Borys’s work matter can be perceived as a process rather than as an unchanging basis of reality.

Keywords

• materiality turn
• contemporary choreography
• aleksandra borys
• karen barad
• agential realism
• new materialism