Estetiche dell’aggiustamento. Spazio, movimento, corpi nel tango argentino e nel contact improvisation

Abstract

This article concerns two dance forms, the Argentine tango and contact improvisation, in which adjustment — as an inter-actional syntax and as the “value of value” of the practice itself — both structures the dance and is the object of the “representation” it generates. The first part summarises the theoretical approach to the “dance phenomenon” elected by the research, to then introduce the reader to the two dances and focus on their internal dynamics, attempting to highlight the tension between programming and adjustment that articulates joint improvisation and structures the learning process. Once we have reconstructed — broadly and tentatively — the forms of interaction that govern them “from within”, the research shifts the focus to the meaning that these aesthetic practices take on from the outside, as anthropological objects, rituals through which dancers reify and present a narrative at the centre of which is an interaction by adjustment. The conclusions, which are also in the making and in the form of “notes”, focus in particular on the opposing and specular themes and contents invested in the sensitive interaction between bodies and in their shared experience of the present, in order to advance in the conclusions some reflections on the imaginaries of gender and more generally of body and sexuality disclosed by the two practices.