SIGN-BODY: DIALOGS BETWEEN LABAN AND BAKHTIN ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE PERFORMING ARTS

Abstract

This article is the result of a study on the repercussions of Classical Ballet
practices in higher education in the Performing Arts, which prompted a triangulation
of studies on dance, Labanian Thought, and the dialogical perspective of Bakhtin
and the Circle. This work discusses the notion of “sign-body”. It concludes by
understanding the body as a living instance, which dives into the immaterial culture
of its society to incorporate and aesthetically arrange the signs pulsating within it;
thus, it is considered a sign-body, which utters enunciation-dancing loaded with
multiple voices, impregnated with meaning and capable of expanding its plastic and
evaluative horizon.