Porous cultural boundaries: the meeting of Shaolin (Shàolín少林) chinese martial arts and contemporary dance in Sutra by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Cover Image

Des frontières culturelles poreuses : la rencontre des arts martiaux chinois Shaolin (Shàolín少林) et de la danse contemporaine dans Sutra de Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Porous cultural boundaries: the meeting of Shaolin (Shàolín少林) chinese martial arts and contemporary dance in Sutra by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Author(s): Sylvain Gagné
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Semiotics / Semiology, Sociology of Culture, Sports Studies
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: Shaolin martial culture (Shàolín wǔshù wénhuà 少林 武术 文化); semiosphere; corposphere; territory; border; semiotics;

Summary/Abstract: Porous Cultural Boundaries: The Meeting of Shaolin (Shàolín少林) Chinese Martial Arts and Contemporary Dance in Sutra by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui This contribution presents an analysis of the porous cultural boundaries in the context of European contemporary dance with Shaolin (Shàolín少林) martial arts in the spectacle Sutra from Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and the Shaolin monks (Shàolín héshàng 少林和尚). The porous cultural boundaries as presented in Sutra are studied with the concept of martial arts corposphere (José Enrique Finol) in relation to the concept of semiosphere (Yuri Lotman) as applied to the Chinese cultural space. The territory is also presented as the holder of the culture, but the diaspora constitutes an example of ultraperipheral extension of the culture or the transgression of the cultural boundaries.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 46
  • Page Range: 17-40
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: French