Narciso: mito y desdoblamiento como performatividad del cuerpo y sus afecciones

Abstract

In this article we study the analogy between the myth of Narcissus and the performativity of the body when it dances. The intention is to identify how the mythical truth contained in the performer’s unfolding behaves in terms of its expression and the communicative gesture with which it can trace a path through the performativity. The aim is not to explain the myth, but to use its narrative validity to propose a phenomenological perspective of the body and its theatricalization in the contemporary experience of dance. We start from Ovid’s Metamorphosis and from sapiential and modern reason (Fuertes Herreros, 2012; 2013); we reflect on an aesthetic drift that extracts from myth the forces or possible conditions that have made possible an aesthetic of the performative.