Mnogie natury spektaklu. O konieczności przekraczania estetyki performatywności w badaniach nad nowym tańcem

This article suggests that the already classic paradigm of research in performing arts – developed by Erika Fischer-Lichte in The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics – needs reconsidering, with a particular focus on new dance and chorography. This proposal results from the recent hybridisation of performing arts, inclusion of discursive content in performances on a par with choreography, and the changed position of the viewer in new dance performances. An analysis is offered of Druga natura (Second Nature), a dance performance by Karolina Grzywnowicz (visual artist) and Agata Siniarska (choreographer and performer), which takes place within the space of an artistic installation. A broader perspective is adopted which includes a discussion of the institutional (production and operation) and aesthetic conditions for new dance in Poland. The characteristics of the performance’s contexts (modern dance aesthetics, Pola Nireńska’s biography, the history of the Holocaust in the dance community) are analysed alongside the viewer’s experience designed as a multi-sensory and intellectual experience.