Danza come incontro. Tra paticità, risonanza atmosferica e transpassibilità

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the relationship between human and non-human from the perspective of the dancer. This question will be addressed through the illustration of the short film Bakelite (2023), which will be taken as an example of dance’s ability to show the precarious, even conflictual nature of the coexistence of human and non-human entities. This aspect will be explored through a phenomenological and neo-phenomenological approach, namely through the Straussian notion of pathicity, the neophenomenological concept of lived corporeality and Henri Maldiney’s notions of encounter and transpassibility. This approach, which will also make use of Butler’s interpretation of the concept of performativity, will allow us to highlight the plural, dynamic and metamorphic nature of our existence and the need, in order to reconfigure the coexistence between human and non-human, to open ourselves to the transformations that the other exerts on us and that are constitutive of our way of feeling, being and acting.