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The Story Is Told As A History of the
BodyStrategies of Mimesis in the Work of
Irigaray and BauschBy Susan Kozel

• Jen Pryor and Edited By Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay
  Picart

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In Dance Theater the story is told as a history
of the body, not as danced literatureIf a logic
exists it is not a logic of the consciousness,
but of the body, one that adheres not to the laws
of causality but rather to the principle of
analogy (101).

• Dance Theater is an analogy or mimesis (101).
• What is a mimesis?
• __________________________________.
• __________________________________.

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Poetry, painting and dancing, Sir, are, or
should be, no other than a faithful likeness of
beautiful nature-Noverre, dancer and scholar.

• Mimesis found in work of Luce Irigaray and Pina
  Bausch based on a principle of repetition or
  analogy.
• There is always a moment of excess or remainder
  in the mimetic process
• Remainder is a moment of _________
• Hope for regeneration
• Distortion is ________, affecting the situation
  of bodies in ___ and ____ (101).

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Mimetic Strategy

• What is duality?
• Examples of dualisms
• Dominate vs. Subordinate

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Discussion Question

• Do you believe that duality within the structure
  of our society it is a guise of indifference?

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Distortion

• What is blended?
• What does it show?

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Time, Space, Fluidity, and Desire

• What does Irigaray argue about this?
• Space
• No distinction between _____ and _________.
• ________ environments
• Nature vs. Artificial, Reality vs. Theater

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• Time ______________
• Simple movement, draws out hidden emotion and
  lets it transform and distort the movement as it
  is repeated over and over
• Fluidity ______________________________________

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New Symbolic

• Term taken from Lacan ___________________________
  _____________________________________________
• Symbolic is a junction of the _____, _______and
  _______.
• New social and political order requires a new
  symbolic.

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Discussion Question

• Irigaray ideas are expressed through Bauschs
  choreography and the art of dance. Do you believe
  that this mimesis can occur without the
  expression of the body through dance? Why or why
  not?

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Works Cited

• Inskeep, Steve. Profile German ballet
  choreographer Pina Bausch and her unusual works.
  20 March 2005. 16 November 2005.ltprelectur.stanfor
  d.edu/.../ nelken_color1.jpggt
• Kozel, Susan. The Story is Told as a History of
  the Body Strategies of Mimesis in the work of
  Irigaray and Bausch. Meaning in Motion. Ed. Jane
  C. Desmond. Durham Duke University Press,
  101-110.
• Switala, Kristin. Feminist Theory Website Luce
  Irigaray. 20 March 2005. 1999.
  http//www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Irigaray.html