What Tadeusz Kantor has in common with contemporary choreographers is the creation of a new system of iconography of corporeality, as well as the related rhythmization of stage activities and orientation towards the action of the performer. The many paths of Kantor’s interdisciplinary art lead to the great subject of the body which is rarely explored in his work. Since the 1990s it has been particularly often exposed in the practice of contemporary choreographers. In this indirect fascination with the body, with the skin stretched over a skeleton, hiding anatomical organs, labyrinths of connections, assemblages of bony and other systems; hidden under the shell is another interior, an abstract, spiritual, intellectual element, intangible, though present. Kantor follows the real body with his eyes, but sees mainly its decay and death. He catches man and his analogies – the rag doll and the machine, on everyday activities and actions – and here he meets again a perspective close to contemporary choreographic practice. The aim of the lecture will be to search for analogies and to comment on them.