Balet Giselle w reinterpretacji Matsa Eka jako środek ,,wypatrywania’’ tożsamości
Giselle ballet in the reinterpretation of Mats Ek as a means of “gazing outward” for an identity

Author(s): Magdalena Juźwik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: classical ballet; ballet reinterpretation; Mats Ek; Giselle; identity; Michael Foucault
Summary/Abstract: Giselle — one of the canonical Romantic ballets, has received many interpretations and reinterpretations. Mats Ek, a Swedish choreographer created in 1982 a Giselle which is radically different from the Romantic prototype. It is in this difference that one should look for hidden meanings, existential and philosophical senses. Can the choreographic narrative be a message? Can the language of dance, movement, gesture and sound be a carrier of identity, history, memory? What cultural and philosophical meanings should be “look out for” in the reinterpreted ballet? The subject of the article is the ballet Giselle in the reinterpretation of Mats Ek. The key to reading hidden meanings in this ballet work are the theories of the French philosopher Michael Foucault on the subject of identity, history and memory. What links Ek’s work to Foucault’s theories? What “gaze” should be involved in the reinterpreted ballet? If we treat Giselle ballet as a means of gazing outward, then the goal should be identity — the question is what identity? Is it really a goal?

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