Since modernity, time –different temporalities and rhythms– has become an important theme in dance: experiences of time in the body as well as figures of time in the choreography have been renegotiated. In contemporary dance, the attention is also drawn to inner and intra-corporal rhythms. With Jean...
Nijinsky's Leap. Dance in Literature, Representation of the Unrepresentable. Nijinsky's leaps, and quintessential leap off stage in "The Spectre of the Rose", challenge verbal description, revealing the essence of dance itself as physical miracle.