Avant, Vol. XI, No. 3, doi: 10.26913/avant.2020.03.36
published under license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska 
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
lorek@umk.pl
Received 17 August 2019; accepted 20 September 2020; published Online First 21 December 2020.
Abstract: This article examines the recorded city soundscape and its relation to dance in Nadia Vadori-Gauthier’s resistant dancing project Une minute de danse par jour started in 2015. Referring to the concepts of site and non-site, site-specific performance, sonoric landscape and Cage’s experiment with city soundscapes, I look into three types of sites used by the dancer: the street, means or sites of transport and isolated places (cemeteries). I am particularly interested in the ways in which the found sound determines the dancer’s movements and how it is framed both by the dancer and the camera.
Keywords: sound; site; dance; Paris; resistance; Vadori-Gauthier
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