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.
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Keywords: dance, word, plastique, ornament, fluidity, image.
For citation:Aristov, V.V., Sirotkina, I.E. (2011). Danceword: to the history of the Yesenin-Duncan creative relationship. Cultural-Historical Psychology,7(3), 114–126. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/chp/archive/2011_n3/48007 (viewed: 06.07.2025)
Vladimir V. Aristov, Candidate of Science (Physics and Matematics), Professor, Head of the
A. A. Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: aristovvl@yandex.ru
Irina E. Sirotkina, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Research Fellow, Institute of History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: isiro@mail.ru
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