Abstrakt (Fulltext in Czech available on the CZ version of our website) The essay deals with the influence of the critique of rational knowledge at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries on the inclination towards dance art of the French Symbolist writers Stéphane Mallarmé and especially Paul Valéry. Valéry's intellectual-analytical approach, which he applied in his attempt to understand the world, was reflected in his views on dance. For him, dance was a metaphysical act and he compared it to a poem that is never fixed as he thought. He demonstrated his literary-philosophical view of dance in several books and received a positive response from erudite dance experts in France and also in Czechoslovakia (André Levinson, Emanuel Siblík), but less so from dancers and choreographers themselves (Jeanne Ronsay, Mary Wigman). Despite his superficial knowledge of the art of dance, his influence on the further emancipation of dance in modern times was undeniable.
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Článek vyšel v časopise Živá hudba 2023/14
