"Flesh of glass:" choreographic body and intermedial sense: notes on an intersemiotic issue

This paper focusses on how the dancer's body--the choreographic body, as we will be calling it--is being represented in audiovisual and more advanced technological media in relation to the modifications that it must undergo, from an intersemiotic point of view, in the course of the transference process from one medium to the other. This will lead us to face some semiotic problems connected, on the one hand, to the procedure implied by the literal embodiment of sense in the actors' [2] bodies of live performance and, on the other hand, we will be led to compare how this live embodied sense is translated in non-live environments in which the intermedial dimension alter the essence of the body on both the semiotic plans of expression and content.