Ambiguous zones: The intertwining of dance and world in the technological era

Abstract

This paper analyses the relationship between body and technology in the field of dance by proposing a reflection on the idea of what my collaborator, musician Fernando Iazzetta, and I call ‘ambiguous zones’. Grounding my research in semiotics and the embodiment perspective, I discuss the role of technology in dance in the realm of digital culture in order to understand the implications of the establishment of new configurations in which body, dance, music, image and environment are used to challenge the dichotomies between mind/body, natural/artificial and real/virtual.