Please do not touch: Dancing with the sculptural works of Robert Therrien

Marie-Louise Crawley

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44085-5_5

Please do not touch: Dancing with the sculptural works of Robert Therrien

Marie-Louise Crawley

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Abstract

This chapter offers from an artist-researcher perspective an account of the author’s experience of choreographing a new solo dance work alongside and inside the large-scale sculptural works of Robert Therrien (1947–2019). The chapter charts an exploration of the relationship of the choreographic to the sculptures’ ability to transform everyday objects to dream-like, story-tale narratives. In addition, it examines how dance, like Therrien’s works, investigates space both as a physical and temporal entity, transforming the viewer’s perception of and bodily relation to it. Observing the relationship and physical responses of the gallery visitors to Therrien’s artwork, the dance work aimed to mirror the spatio-temporal distortions of the sculptures, exploiting the tensions between the playful, tactile impulse of the present moment and the ‘intangibility’ of a lost childhood past.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Art and Dance in Dialogue
Subtitle of host publication	Body, Space, Object
Editors	Sarah Whatley, Imogen Racz, Katerina Paramana, Marie-Louise Crawley
Publisher	Palgrave
Pages	75-89
Number of pages	15
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-44085-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-44084-8, 978-3-030-44087-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44085-5_5
Publication status	Published - 8 Nov 2020

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Keywords

Therrien
Sculpture
Dance
Narrative
Fairy tale
Childhood
Choreography
Time

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Please do not touch: Dancing with the sculptural works of Robert Therrien

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Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object

Contextualizing the Developing Self in Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum

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Please do not touch: Dancing with the sculptural works of Robert Therrien

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Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object

Contextualizing the Developing Self in Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum

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