Abstrakt The paper addresses choreology as a scholarly discipline interpreting dance from different perspectives, but always with the intention to deal with dance in its movement qualities and constitutive principles. Three research fields are taken into consideration as being the “domains” of author’s academic scope. These are: historical study, illustrated by the issue of reading critical reviews as verbal expressions of movement perception; dance analysis and the problem of creating dance-relevant analytical categories; and the sociology of dance, focusing on dance as a unique, irreplaceable case of social action. All three cases should serve to demonstrate the possibility and ability to fulfil the premise inspired by Theodor Adorno: to make choreology meaningful, it must formulate its knowledge on the basis of characteristics identified inside the dance itself.
Dorota Gremlicová:
A Sense of Choreology: In search of a distinctive scholarly approach to dance
Stati a studie / Živá hudba 2023/14 / Publikováno 26. 7. 2024