Roland Huescais professor at the University of Lorraine, France and head of the MA degree ‘Aesthetics, arts and sociology of culture’. His research is focused on history and aesthetics of live art, on the body and its live embodiments. He has written several papers on nudity in dance and is currently preparing a book on this subject to be published later this year. Most recently, he has published Dance, art and Modernity (PUF, 2012).
In the 90s naked dancers created unheard of ways of living and feeling the body: sensitively, they offered a different kind of story where nudity, far from incarnating an ideal, appeared instead to propose a new sensory order.
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