Main publications / Geisha Fontaine

Individual books

2025: Utt, Ko Murobushi, Carlotta Ikeda, Lyon: Nouvelles Éditions Scala (with P. Verrièle, B. Alfort)

2023: The 100 Words of Dance, Paris: PUF-Humensis – Que sais-je? – Reissue

2018: The 100 Words of Dance, Paris: PUF-Humensis – Que sais-je? – First edition

2018: The Dances of Time, Paris: Les Presses du réel and Pantin: CND, digital edition

2015: Contemporary Dance in Question, handbook for the exhibition dedicated to contemporary dance – Pantin: National Dance Centre + exhibition catalogue – Paris: Institut français

2012: The Dances of Time (Spanish translation of Les danses du temps), Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural de la Cooperación

2009: There, Paris: micadanses

2008: You Are the Dancer, Paris: micadanses

2004: The Dances of Time: Research on the Notion of Time in Contemporary Dance, Pantin: National Dance Centre


Collective books and journals

2023: “Troubles – in the wake of three performances by Trisha Brown and Deborah Hay”, Recherches en Danse, no. 12

2023: “Artists’ Words”, co-direction with Giuseppe Burighel and Aurore Desprès, Recherches en Danse, no. 12

2022: “A Researcher’s and Artist’s Gaze”, CND magazine

2022: “The Flower and the Ages”, La Manufacture-CDCN magazine

2019: “Who am I?”, in Dancing Together, Lyon, Nouvelles Éditions Scala

2019: “Stories of Muses”, Revue Ballroom, no. 21

2018: “The Banquet and Its Scenes”, Revue Ballroom, no. 1

2017: “Choreographic Temporalities: Structures and Durations – an Ongoing Process”, São Paulo, Brazil–France colloquium

2017: “2013 – Gabriel Hernandez – Keeping Only the Second Part”, Paris Author’s Dances, Lyon

2017: “Transatlantic Cunningham”, Revue Ballroom, no. 15

2017: “Other Faces”, Ballroom, no. 14

2016: “Variations on Moments of Dance”, Art Research Journal, Rio de Janeiro

2016: “The Choreographer’s Studio”, University of Chile, Santiago

2015: “Millibar, a Choreographic Refrain”, Repères – Dance Notebook, no. 35

2013: “I Blow Up the Screen of My Sleepless Nights Where I Make Cinema of Myself”, Buenos Aires (with Pierre Cottreau)

2013: “A Very Small Thing”, Melbourne

2012: “Dance as a Novel?”, in Myriam Gourfink

2012: “Merce Cunningham, Actual and Virtual”, Revue Contraintes, no. 1

2012: “Perceptual Slippages”, CECN2

2010: “Words and Dances”, micadanses

2010: “Spectacular Death, Hybrid Dance”; “Flowers or Boots”

2010: “Facing Time in Dance”, Turkey

2009: “Dance Objects, Objects of All Kinds”, La part de l’œil

2007: “Program-artists?”, micadanses

2007: “Myriam Gourfink: Dance, Writing and New Technologies”

2004: “The Training of the Dancer and the Choreographer”

2003: “The Concept of Time in Contemporary Dance”

2000: “Contemporary Choreography on Television”

1996: “Choreographers”


Articles

Texts for various journals, especially: Mouvement, Kinem, Nouvelles de danse, Repères Cahier de danse, Ballroom

In collaboration with Pierre Cottreau: The Star Notebooks

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