Autobiography in contemporary art: the case of Buenos Aires dance

Abstract

In contemporary dance productions of recent years, especially in the last five years, a type of dance work organized around autobiographical themes began to appear in the city of Buenos Aires. In the first instance, the autobiographical has been crystallized as a literary genre; Today it could be looked back as a way of doing that replicates in contemporary artistic productions. This common mode would account for the appearance of certain recurrences in relation to how the speeches are organized, the topics they gather and the communicational situations they help to shape. The present work will focus exclusively on the analysis of this phenomenon in the area of semiotic performance of contemporary art and dance in particular, to subsequently dialogue with the possibility of considering the autobiography as a more comprehensive discursive modality. Oscar Steimberg's proposals on style, as a social classification that distinguishes, places and accounts for features shared by a series of speeches, will be put in dialogue with various authors who study the autobiographical in contemporary times in order to attempt to delimit the possibilities of its reach .