Dançamos? O Baile de Ettore Scola: traçando história através da dança

• Autor(a) principal: Marisa, Cláudia
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Tudela, Nuno
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/10667
• topic: Film analysis; Dramaturgy; Performance analysis; Dance; Aesthetics; Sociology of the body

The social sciences no longer question what science does to art but instead what art brings into human knowledge. This notion leads to the analysis of artistic production, assuming that art helps to perceive the world and to anticipate future logic. In this sense, art reveals itself as a site par excellence for the uptake of social meanings and subtext produced. The cinema, as an artistic language, has the power to become eternal through the invasion of all aspects of human existence. The relationship between social movements and their inscription in the daily-life-body have, on film, a screen that in an enlarged way creates an indispensable language for the construction of sociability. Having this notion in mind we intend with this paper to discuss the film Le Bal by Ettore Scola (1983) taking in account its production of meanings. Through a choreographic narrative, this film describes the European society from the 30s to the 80s of the XXth century. The characters are brought together in a dance hall, assuming the body as the sign of interaction. Our main aim with the analysis of this film is to reflect art as a projection of social movements and consequently research the individual models of interpretation as creative devising. Although film interpretations have, already, a given direction, one can find unlimited variations for the same set of situations. Thus, a film is not limited to predetermined direction; there are always possibilities for new meanings and interpretations.