The Dance Body as an Arena of Values and the Chronotope of the Theater - An Exercise of Analysis

ABSTRACT The exercise of analysis of performance dance discourse is carried out grounded in Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope. On the basis of the classical ballet genre, theater is established as a constitutive chronotope that materializes its social-aesthetic values spatial-temporally. The analysis of chronotopic transgressions allows identifying the emergence of modern ballet based on two choreographies by Russian artist Vaslav Nijinski.