Touring

– Do not pout* Serie

Ne faites pas la moue

The series unfolds in five one-hour episodes : A Comical Duo: Dance and Philosophy, A Philosophical Dance Hall, Where Are the Women Philosophers?, De Natura Rerum – Nature?, Critical Bodies, Political Bodies.

Passionate about dance and critical thought, and following a deliberately atypical artistic path, Geisha Fontaine, in collaboration with Pierre Cottreau, weaves together these two fields: dance and philosophy. Ne faites pas la moue is an artistic gesture that embraces, asserts, and claims the proximity even the indistinction between the thinking body and the dancing body.This creation signals a lifelong commitment, where dance and philosophy have shaped an artist’s journey. It stands as a form of revendication in a society where the “spectacular” is often opposed to the “theoretical,” despite the fact that they share the same etymology: both “theatre” and “theory” come from the Greek word thea (θέα) (the act of seeing, contemplating). The Greeks were quite clear-sighted!

With: Geisha Fontaine, Farnaz Modarresifar, Baptiste Beignon-Pivert

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– 10 dances

10 danses

10 dances is a danced conference created after the exhibition “La danse contemporaine en questions” (CND/Institut français), for which Geisha Fontaine was the scientific adviser. Thought like a happy trail through nine steps with diverse themes, it is a journey in the various styles and means of the choreographical creation. Geisha Fontaine uses, for example, the notions of body, technique or link to the world, with hunger and generosity. This performance, created at the C ND in 2019, has been presented 106 times since its creation in partnership with L’Atelier de Paris-CDCN, Escales danse, L’Échangeur-CDCN, the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine Saint-Denis, the Festival Essonne danse, etc.

With: Geisha Fontaine

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– Spaces in Motion

Espaces en mouvement

Espaces en mouvement / Spaces in Motion is a space of encounter between place, architecture and dance. That choregraphical performance was created in 2018 at the Pavillon français of the International biennale of architecture in Venice. It echoes to the name of the Biennale: FreeSpace, and the one of the Pavillon français exibition: infinite places. In addition to that, it mixes real space with creative, poetical, dancing or even political spaces. It offers to navigate between individual spaces and a collective body that unfolds, creates lignes, masses and volumes.

With: Geisha Fontaine, Julie Galopin, Alexandre Théry