In:Key Cultural Texts in Translation
Edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Adriana Şerban and Fransiska Louwagie
[Benjamins Translation Library 140] 2018
► pp. 25–34
Chapter 2Dancing through the waves of feminism
Martha Graham and Marie Chouinard as intersemiotic translators
Published online: 16 May 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.140.02tsi
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.140.02tsi
Abstract
This article makes use of Roman Jakobson’s articulation of intersemiotic translation (Jakobson 1959). Taking the work of two different choreographers and dancers – Martha Graham and Marie Chouinard – to be instances of intersemiotic translation, I explore the cultural discourses they have produced in terms of the ways gender and sexuality emerge in the translations in question. The analysis sets the dance performances in the framework of feminist translation as articulated by Luise von Flotow (1991) and queer translation or queeriture, which I have articulated elsewhere (Tsiakalou 2013). These frameworks arise from two different and successive movements in translation and translation studies, which follow the “passage” from second-wave feminism to third-wave feminism or queer theory.
Keywords: dance studies, intersemiotic translation, queer theory, feminism
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Martha Graham – Rite of Spring
- 2.1Strategies
- 2.2 Rite of Spring (1984)
- 3.Marie Chouinard – Le Sacre du printemps
- 3.1Strategies
- 3.2 Le Sacre du printemps/Rite of Spring (1993)
- 4.Conclusion
Notes References
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