my body needs to occupy space

Abstract

This essay is part of a wider research about narratives  — ways of storytelling, of dancing, filming, writing  — that develops out of three intuitions: bodies must move, dance and occupy space; dancing is contagious; and movies are a privileged narrative form to present dancing bodies and a space of contact and resonance for the spectator, in dialog with the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s thought on bodies, cinema and writing. In this way this text proposes to look and listen to a scene from the 1976 movie Cría Cuervos by Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura.