Barber, Stephen (2017) Corporeal Disintegration as Last Gasp Vocal Act: the Final Works, of Murobushi, Artaud and Chereau. New Theatre Quarterly, 33(2), pp. 169-178. ISSN (print) 0266-464X
Abstract
This essay analyses a number of performance art experiments by significant artists and choreographers, each deploying vocal innovations. The essay is based on extensive archival research in Japan and France. The distinctive form of a final, last-gasp, last-breath monologue illuminates distinctive aspects of the final works of artists and choreographers. Such a monologue, which expires at around the same time that the body which expels it also expires, often constitutes a manifestation of a practitioner's work in its most intensive form, while intimating qualities of corporeal and linguistic disintegration and fragmentation, and offers insights that span dance and performance art.
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