The Dance-Ephemeral: With Michel Serres

Short, momentary, temporary, transient, precarious, and labile are adjectives that the current post-pandemic, ecological, climatic, war, political, economic, and social contingencies have accustomed us to employ almost compulsively and indiscriminately by now, and that, beyond everything, are synonyms inter-implicit with and in the ephemerality, which deserves reconsideration in its literalness as epì heméra (for a day), that can take place through a sort of its “double”, not quite mainstream but nonetheless suggestive and perhaps even effective, such as the artistic one of dance. Therefore, it is worth pausing to try and see which streaks/implications of the ephemerality itself the dance-ephemeral conveys and/or produces: the neuralgic concretions that the latter seems to me to involve and permeate, in a perspective of re-cognition/re-discovery/awareness, are time, space and the body, evidently inter-implicated.