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‘Like every true artist, he did not want to construct the image of a body but a body for the image.’

‘Pathosformeln are made of time—they are crystals of historical memory, crystals which are “phantasmatized”…and round which time writes its choreography.’

‘…the formulaic composition entails the impossibility of distinguishing between creation and performance…formulae, exactly like Warburg’s Pathosformeln, are hybrids of matter and form, of creation and performance, of first-timeless [primavoltità] and repetition.’

‘Domenico calls “phantasm” (fantasma) a sudden arrest between two movements that virtually contracts within its internal tension the measure and the memory of the entire choreographic series.’