Gestures of Dance - Dance as Gesture. Cultural and Aesthetic Translations in International Coproductions by the Tanztheater Wuppertal

该研究项目以坦桑尼亚伍珀塔尔剧院的15部国际合作作品为基础，研究翻译手势的文化和审美过程。重点在于城市日常姿态，乐团在共同制作国家的特定文化背景下体验和研究，然后将其融入编舞中。在特殊的经验材料的帮助下，这些材料尚未提供给专业和科学的公众，如表演节选和编舞文本，视觉和书面排练笔记，即尚未出版的档案材料，Pina Bausch基金会为这个项目提供，以及进一步的经验数据，如观众调查，对舞者的采访，排练期间的个人笔记，在线电影和其他视觉材料，该研究项目将研究文化知识的产生，以及舞蹈手势中跨文化理解的形式和框架。这将在三个层面上进行分析，舞者的表演，独舞和群舞，编舞，它的时间-节奏和空间-建筑和互动-形象方面。该研究项目不是从人类学的角度来探讨手势的主题，而是寻求，一方面，通过检查手势的文化和社会方面及其允许跨文化理解的潜力，从根本上为舞蹈研究和文化社会学领域的手势文化和社会理论做出贡献。另一方面，该研究项目还旨在在文化理解是否可能的背景下，对手势作为舞蹈理论的基本术语进行概念性理解。通过质疑日常手势和舞蹈手势的关系，后者作为一种艺术手势被理解为手势的第二种结构（Brandstetter 2010, Fischer-Lichte 2010），手势的主题将在其在跨文化理解中的使用方面进行调查，主要关注表演和身体方面。

The research project examines cultural and aesthetic processes of translating gestures based on fifteen international coproductions by the Tanztheater Wuppertal. The focus lies on urban everyday gestures, which the ensemble experienced and investigated in the specific cultural contexts of the co-producing countries and then subsequently integrated into their choreographies.With the help of exceptional empirical material, not yet available to a professional and scientific public like performance excerpts and choreographic paratexts, visual and written rehearsal notes, i.e. as yet unpublished archive material, which the Pina Bausch Foundation has offered to provide for this project, as well as further empirical data like audience surveys, interviews with dancers, personal notes made during rehearsals, online film and other visual material, the research project will examine the production of cultural knowledge and the forms and framings of intercultural understanding in and through dance gestures. This will be analyzed on three levels, the scenic performances of the dancers, the solo and group dances and the choreography, its temporal-rhythmic and spatial-architectural and interactive-figurational aspects.Instead of approaching the subject of gesture from an anthropological perspective, the research project seeks, on the one hand, to fundamentally contribute to a cultural and social theory of the gesture in the fields of dance studies and cultural sociology by examining the cultural and social aspects of gesture and their potential to permit intercultural understanding. On the other hand, the research project also aims to develop a conceptual understanding of gesture as a fundamental term of dance theory against the backdrop of whether cultural understanding is at all possible. By questioning the relationship of everyday gestures and dance gestures, the latter as an artistic gesture understood as a second construction of gestures (Brandstetter 2010, Fischer-Lichte 2010), the subject of gesture will be investigated in terms of its use in intercultural understanding with a main focus on performative and corporeal aspects.