Oltre i confini della lingua e del corpo. Il testo « danzato » di Gherasim Luca

Starting from the performative utterance, developed in the theory of linguistic acts by John Langshaw Austin, this article aims to analyze some passages of Gherasim Luca’s Romanian work, The Inventor of Love, which preceded his French poetry. His bilingualism stimulated his search for all that is irreversible, real, and concrete, showing the infinite plastic possibilities of words. His performances of the 60’s and 70’s, together with the shows created by the French choreographers, have opened up a large space for reflection, in which the poetic and dancing subjects have the power to open themselves to incompleteness and diversity. Hence, the ambition of some artists to create a dialogue between the two languages, where one completes the other in the dimension of otherness. Starting from Romanian, Gherasim Luca created another language in French, a language in the language, which gave him the opportunity to express himself otherwise.