theory

Frakcija: The key concept and the title of your book is “social choreography” and you use it in relation to both dance and the aesthetic of everyday movement. How do you frame that concept and how is it related to choreography as artistic practice? Andrew Hewitt: My methodology of “social choreography” is rooted in an attempt to think the aesthetic as it operates at the very base of social experience.

In order to write about the actual situation of contemporary dance in Serbia, I must begin by conceptualizing and contextualizing the local dance scene through its synchronic relationship with neighboring scenes and other European or Western scenes. As contemporary dance is a new phenomenon in Serbia, there are two problematic theses that I would like to put forward as starting points.

STVARALAČKA STRANA HUMANISTIKE još uvek nije naišla na prihvatanje u zvaničnoj klasifikaciji i metodologiji naučnih disciplina. Da li je humanistika oblast koja se bavi isključivo izučavanjem, ili bi u njoj trebalo da bude i aktivnog, konstruktivnog dopunjavanja? Znamo da tehnologija služi kao praktično proširivanje ("primenjivanje") prirodnih nauka, kao što je politika proširivanje društvenih nauka.

I gave to this talk the title: «the emancipated spectator». As I understand it, a title is always a challenge. It sets forth the presupposition that an expression makes sense, that there is a link between separate terms, which also means between concepts, problems and theories which seem at first sight to bear no direct relation on each other.

One of the first comments I could call out after the performance of The Theatre of Repetitions was: finally! Finally an event where music and theatre engage on an autonomous third plane of philosophy, saved from the obsessive search for a suitable Musik+Theater relationship whereby the capacity for representation in music traditionally is weighed against theatrical staging.

When Marx undertook his critique of the capitalistic mode of production, this mode was in its infancy. Marx directed his efforts in such a way as to give them prognostic value. He went back to the basic conditions underlying capitalistic production and through his presentation showed what could be expected of capitalism in the future. The result was that one could expect it not only to exploit the proletariat with increasing intensity, but ultimately to create conditions which would make it possible to abolish capitalism itself.