Presença e morte: o carácter efémero das artes do corpo.

This paper aims to reflect on a hypothetical threshold-space between contemporary dance and performance art, questioning at the same time prevalence of too strict boundary them. To this end, range works involving hybridization artistic languages ​​were selected analyzed, from Signals (1970) by American dancer choreographer Merce Cunningham Café Müller (1978) German Pina Bausch. Both art are ephemeral arts or, according classical system, as opposed space - painting, sculpture architecture. They have also been called allographic arts, performative perhaps more specifically, body (Ribeiro, 1997). Unlike traditional fine which materialize in physical object other than body, unlike video-art cinema, without originals, mediated process “technical reproducibility” (Benjamin, 1992), require presence human duration present fundamental instrument for their realization. In that sense, focuses ephemerality factor associated with performing consequent devaluation these suffered vis-à-vis practices, considered be academic socially significant.