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How can one study the fetichism of a myth, nurtured more by legends than actual fact, when it takes an iconographic form which conceals its sources through the multiplication of sequences deliberately made incomprehensible ? By drawing the mosaic of available sources, of course, but also by allowing for the confrontation of postmodernist discourse with the 17th century's epitaphs, which celebrated the vertigo of the actor trapped in his own interpretations. It is through this confrontation that the true stakes surrounding La Mort de Molière can be illustrated. Not only filmed, this death was also acted out by Robert Wilson who exorcizes the historical death of an actor, unrepentant victim of his interpretation, by engraving on a tombstone the eternity of all actors.
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Robert Wilson's video La Mort de Molière contains 4 scenes in which the action can clearly be identified as a dance. Although a dance always conveys an image of the human body in motion, this particular production generates a distinction and an interaction between the dancing body and other images of the body, especially those of Molière's dying body. My analysis focuses on these interrelations between the dancing and the dying bodies in an attempt to elucidate the interrelations between the represented fictional world of Molière and Wilson's aesthetic world.
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