Fabián Gandini y la est(ética) de la fisura

VALLEJOS, JUAN IGNACIO

Sztuka Ameryki Lacinskiej / Arte de América Latina

Polish Institute of World Art Studies

Lugar: Torun; Año: 2018 p. 21 - 34

2299-260X

During 2015, I collaborated with the Argentine choreographer Fabian Gandini in the production of his last work ?En la boca de la tormenta [In the mouth of the storm]?. Gandini is among the first artists to develop the ?non-dance? cho- reographic movement in Buenos Aires, the city where he has lived and worked since 2004. My purpose in this paper will be to describe and analyze Gandini?s artistic practice in terms of a ?Aesth-ethics of Fissure? linked not only to a po- etical singularity but also to a critic of local dance productive practices. By us- ing the temporal perception and the stilling of movement as dramaturgical re- sources, Gandini tends to subvert a strong legacy of expressionism. I would like to argue that his choreographic work embodies a political statement in the in- stitutional context of Buenos Aires? contemporary dance by exposing a specif- ic form of ?performative fragility? that establishes itself at the frontier of theat- rical fiction.