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Sep. 2021 The Baroque in Jiří Kylián Intertextual and Intermedial References in Kylián’s Works by KATJA VAGHI, lic phil A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of PhD Department of Dance University of Roehampton 2015 Table of Contents Acknowledgements .................................................................................................... 4 Abstract .......................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 7 0.1. Jiří Kylián and the contemporary Baroque ............................................................. 7 0.1.1. Jiří Kylián .................................................................................................................. 7 0.1.2. The contemporary Baroque .......................................................................... 11 0.2. Key issues and methodological considerations ................................................... 13 0.3. Transmediality: Baroque, Neo-baroque or contemporary Baroque? ........ 15 0.4. Beyond the dance works: Intertextuality and Intermediality ....................... 18 1. Thinking and re-thinking a mythical past .................................................... 21 1.1. Historical references in Kylián: between Baroque and early Classicism .. 23 1.1.1. Baroque etymology ........................................................................................... 26 1.1.2. Kylián’s definition .............................................................................................. 29 1.2. Of misshapen pearls: baroque forms ........................................................................ 32 1.2.1. Baroque forms in fine art ................................................................................ 32 1.2.2. Baroque forms in music .................................................................................. 38 1.3. Rethinking the Baroque: the Baroque today and towards a Neo-baroque ........................................................................................................................................................... 41 1.3.1. Preparing the Neo-baroque ........................................................................... 41 1.3.2. Omar Calabrese’s Neo-baroque ................................................................... 44 1.3.3. Mieke Bal’s contemporary Baroque ........................................................... 49 1.3.3.1. Preposterous History………………………………………………………..51 1.3.3.2. 'Quoting' Caravaggio ………………………………………………………...53 1.3.3.3. Deixis and its application to dance …………………………………….54 2. Intertextual and intermedial considerations ............................................. 66 2.1. On referencing and quoting ......................................................................................... 70 2.2. Dance and language: dance studies and Textuality .......................................... 72 2.3. Intertextuality and Intertextuality in dance ......................................................... 74 2.3.1. Gérard Genette’s notion of Intertextuality .............................................. 76 2.3.2. Intertextuality in dance ................................................................................... 82 2.4. Intermediality .................................................................................................................... 89 2.4.1. Between Intertextuality and Intermediality: Andreas Böhn’s approach ............................................................................................................................ 93 2.4.2. Intermediality: Irina Rajewsky’s and Werner Wolf’s approaches .............................................................................................................................................. 101 2.4.3. Intermedial studies in dance ....................................................................... 117 2.5. Embodied references: Jiří Kylián’s works ............................................................ 120 3. Bella Figura (1995) ........................................................................................... 124 3.0. General introduction .................................................................................................... 124 3.0.1. Structure .............................................................................................................. 126 3.0.2. Making a good impression: title and themes ....................................... 129 3.1. Explicit references: music ........................................................................................... 131 3.1.1. Musical selection and organisation .......................................................... 133 3.1.1.1. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater …………………………………………………133 3.1.1.2. Lukas Foss's Salomon Rossi Suite …………………………………...136 3.1.1.3 The other works of music………………………………………………...137 1 3.2. Implicit references: movement, costumes and light ....................................... 139 3.2.1. Movement ............................................................................................................ 139 3.2.1.1. Sensuality………………………………………………………..……….…….143 3.2.1.2. Instability and Metamorphosis…………………………….…….……147 3.2.1.3. Knots and Labyrinth……………………………………………………….150 3.2.1.4. Direct references: are these quotations of expression………157 3.2.1.5. Group section……………………………………………………………………………………….161 3.2.2. Costumes .............................................................................................................. 169 3.2.3. Light ....................................................................................................................... 173 3.2.3.1. Direction of light………………………………………………………….....174 3.2.3.2. Type of light……………………………………………………………………177 3.2.3.3. Intensity of light…………………………………………………………...…178 3.3. Where is the audience standing? Deixis in dance ............................................ 181 3.3.1. Space ...................................................................................................................... 182 3.3.1.1. Space: curtains and framing…………………………………………….182 3.3.1.2. Space: exceeding the frames……………………………………………185 3.3.2. Time ....................................................................................................................... 186 3.3.3. Persona ................................................................................................................. 188 3.4. Conclusion ......................................................................................................................... 188 4. Petite Mort (1991) ............................................................................................. 193 4.0. General introduction .................................................................................................... 193 4.0.1. Structure .............................................................................................................. 194 4.0.2. Baroque eroticism: title and themes ........................................................ 199 4.1. Explicit and intramedial references: the props ................................................ 204 4.1.1. The props: fencing foils and black dresses ........................................... 204 4.1.2. Of black dresses, fencing foils and other intramedial elements .. 207 4.2. Implicit references: costumes, the black cloth and music ............................ 212 4.2.1. The costumes ..................................................................................................... 213 4.2.2. The black cloth .................................................................................................. 218 4.2.3. Music ...................................................................................................................... 220 4.2.3.1. Music and movement………………………………………………………227 4.2.3.2. Silence……………………………………………………………………………231 4.3. Where is the audience standing? Deixis in dance ............................................ 233 4.3.1. Persona ................................................................................................................. 236 4.3.2. Space ...................................................................................................................... 238 4.3.2.1. Space: light generating space…………………………………………..239 4.3.2.2. Space: the proper space for sexuality……………………………….243 4.3.3. Time: dream time ............................................................................................