2.2 Some body and no body: the body of a performer

By Wendy Houstoun (pp. 31-38)

“I learnt very early on in dance training that how I feel is not necessarily how I look,
and the journey through movement and performance practices has been
a process of aligning my own internal perception
with external commentaries”
(Wendy Houstoun, p.34)

 

Some body (me) Somebody/nobody observed (performance)
No body (dancer) “at risk” (in character)
Ageing body (The body has imprints of moves running around it that reside in another era). 

 

 
Pitches, J., and Popat, S. (ed.) (2011) Performance Perspectives: A Critical Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan