Liminality is always present when art styles get on hybridation. So, dance film allows non continuous structures, although there is  a tendency to mix narrative to explain a concept but without really explaining a story, “promising everything and giving nothing”. This sense of nothingness comes strong in many art pieces, the expectation of desiring to know what is next and why the events are happening creates a tension that helps to build the dance film structure, or artistic work structures, maintaining the audience in an alert state, however, if the starting question was not well guessed, the audience may have a feeling of frustration and sense of piece failure when they acknowledge that nothing really is happening. This feeling becomes very strong when audience from other sectors, not basically dance oriented, decide to have a evening of dance in a theatre, it seems that they enjoy if the performance possesses a strong content of physicality, not paying special attention to the structure or meaning, enjoying the movement purely. On the other side, becoming obvious and literal can be an easy trap to fall when the first question is not clear. It is not possible to satisfy everybody, decisions must be taken to positionate in one side or the other. At this point, liminal products are in continuously danger if the commitment to the target, the real target  shifts from one to another.

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Maria Escarabajal

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“The new paradigm is “performance”, not theatre.” Richard Schechner

“We never look at one thing, we always look at the relationship between things and ourselves”.
John Berger

“Anything not important to the total expression is a distraction, and sometimes in our concern for finding movement we forget that we must also get rid of movement. Dance as language must be formed and then edited and re-formed”.
Lois Ellfeldt