Danceword: to the history of the Yesenin-Duncan creative relationship

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Abstract

The relationship between the dancer and the poet are not seen from the traditional love-story point of view, but as a model allowing to analyse a problem that has long been expecting its solution: the problem of associa¬tion between dance and word. This psychological problem particularly relevant to studying the genesis of con-sciousness is treated by the present paper using art as a material, namely, the free dance of Duncan and Yesenin's poetic language. A few years before meeting Isadora the poet wrote his theoretical work «Maria's keys», in which he formulated a number of ideas concerning the plastique of the word, seeing word as an orna¬ment or a gesture. In this and his other works on poetics dating back to 1918—1920 he described the verbal «ornament», «modelling of a word and an image», their «streaming» and «fluidity», and the «organic» images. Alternating and replacing each other, «line» and «ornament», «song» and «melody», «dance» and «gesture» constitute a specific discourse within his work. In this discourse, not only the plastique of a resonating word, but also the expression of dancing movement mastered by Duncan, becomes tangible. The creative union of a poet and a dancer helps us to see things unnoticed by purely literary, prosodic analysis - the plastique of the verse, its spatial organization, and its inherent motion vectors. A collation of dance with poetic word, in turn, reveals the expressiveness and the figurative plenitude of dance.

General Information

Keywords: dance, word, plastique, ornament, fluidity, image.

Journal rubric: Psychology of Art

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Aristov V.V., Sirotkina I.E. Danceword: to the history of the Yesenin-Duncan creative relationship. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2011. Vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 114–126. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Vladimir V. Aristov, PhD in Physics and Matematics, Professor, Head of the A. A. Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: aristovvl@yandex.ru

Irina E. Sirotkina, PhD in Psychology, Research Fellow, Institute of History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: isiro@mail.ru

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