The Ribot, distinguished and static: an analytic andastonished perception of María José Ribot Manzanos’s work, “La Ribot”

Abstract

In order to properly comprehend the current, contemporary choreographic works -its strategies and discourses- it is of main importance to transform the ways to perceive and come to terms with art in general. This transformation in perceiving art implies a less disciplined approach to subjectivity. This sort of approach must allow a certain level of flexibility of what, as individuals, we consider legible and understandable. An approach that permits us understand, in Lepecki’s words, “the theoretical and political challenge to the old alliance of simultaneous invention of choreography and modernity as a being towards movement and the political ontology of movement in modernity” (Lepecki, 24), that are implied in this new scenic works. A sensible approach that, emancipated from a subjectivity designed and constructed on the aesthetic assumptions of Modernity, would bring us close to the artistic reality as a ludic practice. An approach that would place the spectator in a new, sensible, spatial perspective.