Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Luce Irigaray, Pas De Deux, Helen Fielding

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2162A/B
• Professor: Julianna Beaudoin

Document Summary

Ideas about dance reflect ideas about our social world: dance practices reflect notions of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, etc. Dancing gender norms: how are certain gender norms made visible in ballet (pas de deux specifically), he is moving, she is being moved. Strategy of mimesis: originally it comes for aesthetics, this word translates to imitation, how much does are imitate life, excess, repetition with a difference, creates distortion, pina bausch, german choreographer, post modern dance. What does it mean to talk about the body: how we describe bodies, while talking about bodies, we end up turning bodies into objects. In some aspects technically yes, they can be touched and held but they aren"t objects. What is movement when it cannot be named: movements that can not be named make us uncomfortable, we are(cid:374)"t used to seei(cid:374)g thi(cid:374)gs that do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a (cid:374)a(cid:373)e, e(cid:454). Pulli(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e arou(cid:374)d (cid:271)(cid:455) their ski(cid:374) does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a parti(cid:272)ular (cid:374)a(cid:373)e.