Conferences – May and June 2025 – Carré de Baudouin – https://www.pavilloncarredebaudouin.fr/universites2/
Thursday may 22, 2025 at 7pm : Danse et architecture – Le mouvant et le solide !
Dance and architecture create assemblages, play with levels and volumes, and invite movement through spaces, encouraging their diversion and transformation. Dance takes on different styles depending on whether it unfolds in traditional proscenium theaters or in outdoor settings. It dialogues with architecture, responds to it, escapes from it, and inhabits it in its own way.
Thursday june 12, 2025 at 7pm : x-y – la danse et ses genres
The way in which a choreographic creation is structured is decisive. There are multiple ways of constructing dance, for example by composing in fragments, or in a linear development, or by relying on chance or repetition… Various compositional processes will be discussed, with particular emphasis on the organization of a performance in the time of the representation.
Tuesday April 2, 2024: Dance and the other arts
X-Y – La danse et ses genres / What are the images and representations of men and women in choreographic creation? Today, professional dancing seems to be predominantly female (even though positions of power remain largely male-dominated). Yet, throughout history and across cultures, male dancers have always been an integral part of dance. All genders lift a leg, spin, and unfold movement.
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Four conferences have already taken place this season
Saturday, October 19, 2024 : Danse et arts visuels, tissages – The visual arts and dance observe each other! Each of these arts engages materials, colors, and movements that meet, converse, and complement one another. Let’s explore choreographic works that reveal multiple worlds, the fruits of unexpected collaborations. A hundred years ago, Matisse, Picasso, and Léger created for dance. More recently? Luc Boltanski and Dominique Bagouet, Andy Goldsworthy and Régine Chopinot have collaborated. Théo Mercier and François Chaignaud blur the boundaries. Sometimes, choreographers themselves exhibit in art centers…
Saturday, November 16, 2024 : Les temps de la danse – Dance is a living art form. While the present moment of meeting the audience is crucial, multiple temporalities are also at play in choreography : beginnings and endings, durations, repetitions, speeds, traces, suspensions. Linear time, cyclical time…
Each artist creates their own time. Let us weave together the hours of dance and intertwine the moments – of the dancer, the choreographer, and the spectator. What an infinity!
Saturday, January 25, 2025 : La danse fait son cinéma – Filming dance ? Dancing in films? These two arts go hand in hand. Let’s take a look ! From the “recordings” of choreographic performances to the captivating dance scenes in films, from early images of Loïe Fuller to musicals, from choreographer-filmmakers to filmmaker-dancers , so much movement ! Onstage, on the big screen, everywhere.
Saturday, February 22, 2025 : Quand la danse s’habille, se costume, se dénude… Throughout the history and techniques of dance, clothing has played an important role. From long gowns to short tutus, from small-heeled sandals to bare feet, from costumes created by Picasso or Jean-Paul Gaultier to jeans–t-shirts–sneakers, garments parade across the stage, sometimes discreetly, sometimes disappearing altogether. Costume is a visual element, but it also affects the dancer’s mobility : it is a partner in performance. From Antiquity to today, let’s celebrate dance through balls, bacchanals, carnivals, or fashion parades…
In 2024, between February and May – Four Conferences
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 : Un spectacle de danse ? Quels enjeux ?Dance is a living art realized through the moving body. Some choreographers see movement as dance’s primary material, others use it to serve a theme; yet others blur the lines between the arts…
What are the stakes of a dance performance? On what perceptions does it rely? Must it necessarily “mean” something?
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 : La composition chorégraphique – The way a choreographic creation is structured is decisive. There are many ways to build dance – by composing in fragments, through a linear development, or by relying on chance or repetition… Various compositional processes will be discussed, with a particular focus on the organization of a performance’s temporal structure.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024: La danse et les autres arts – What relationships does dance maintain with other art forms? In what ways is it unique? What influences can be observed across different artistic fields? Choreographers often collaborate with composers, visual artists, writers, and others. What forms of collaboration do they favor ?
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 : L’espace dans la danse, l’espace de la danse Space is a major element in dance. We will first explore the uses of space in choreographic creation, then move on to discuss the venues where dance is performed and how they interact with the shows they host. We will journey from the Italian-style theatre to a garden, from the street to an airport runway, from a museum to a swimming pool, spaces for dance are many and varied.
All conferences are illustrated with excerpts from videos of shows.