Introduction

“This revelation was a lancing of my spontaneous circular designs, both as a meditative trace and leaving a trace of permanence, of which the dance lives and dies in one act of execution.”(Carolyn Carlson 37) Following up on the previous volume on “Gestures and their Traces”, this new issue of Interfaces presents its second selection of essays published in the wake of the conference that was held at the Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France) in June 2017 (“Gestures in Texts and the Visual Ar..