The body as text

Launched in the book series Studia Theatralica, those interested can encounter a rich variety of theatrical history topics that are broadly interpreted and approached in a modern way. Our present volume leads to a new field of the art of dance in Hungary, to the theoretical paths of the interpretation of the performance text created by the movements. The book version of the doctoral dissertation of the author, the Gyula Harangozó Prize winner, Katalin Lőrincz, a dancer, choreographer, journalist and university professor awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, is worthy of interest of both theater and dance practitioners and the public. Katalin Lőrinc approaches the "text of the body" from three points of view, supplementing the theoretical and viewer-critical interpretation with an analysis of her own creative and performing experiences. In what ways can we watch the movement of the performer and how does the mover experience it? The author as a dancer asks the question: how can the body become a text. But first he goes around: how natural science, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and the history of theater ask questions and what answers ... it is also a non-chronological experiment in the history of dance, theater, and culture, because it does not just line it up in chronological order, but organizes what could have happened so far with the body moving on stage according to the "body use".