Distance, Closeness and Touch in and as an Improvised Duet Dance: How to “Move a Bit Further Away” with a Partner

Abstract The intelligibility of a performance improvised dance does not reside in the rehearsed execution pre-existing script, nor it result from sustained verbal interaction between dancers. Many aspects speechless obviously play an important role achieved dance: dancer is seen moving on and ground, stage, space delimited by walls, illuminated spotlights, sounded music, front audience. And course with other dancers, whose joint gestures moves give shape to choreography providing pace, rhythm sequences, thereby constituting narrative or fragments thereof. This paper addresses manufacture this witnessable order, presenting some results ethnographic inquiry. investigation will be focused how, duet, each interacts other, more specifically how she he positions her- himself relation distance proximity touch. work management dance, choreographic accountability produced structured dancers staying at distance, getting closer touching other. analysis shows that oriented as relevant has consequences their duet. It also what makes analyzable distant observers.