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La Danse Comme Objet Sémiotique
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2019
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Dans la perspective des processus évolutifs qui boulversent actuellement les modèles traditionnels de la culture folklorique, dans la perspective des interférences et du transfert intense de produits culturels opéré entre le plan de la culture de type urbain et celle de type folklorique-traditionnel, la choréologie devrait élargir l'angle de ses investigations vers une recherche sémiotique de la danse, qui seule pourrait rendre compte au-delà des niveaux de surface, des significations profondes qui justifient l'existence de la danse dans une communauté donnée, aussi bien que de toutes les transformations qu'elle subit.
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Folk dance must be considered as a non-verbal language, an essential part of total human communication; between man and man, between man and his environment, and between man and the supernatural. Dance, seen in this context, contains not only rhythmical-esthetic information, but cultural as well. Contextual research has shown that dance functions as an ambiguous sign: that dance does not exist as an autonomous language but only as a complex semiotic object which has different degrees of meaning in a variety of contexts; and that the functional transformation imposed by a changing context determines equivalent structural modifications.
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