Research presentations

Seventeen research and notation projects benefitted from a research and dance heritage grant in June 2017. The researchers and notators will here introduce the present state of their work. Exploring such varied aesthetics as classical Khmer dance, the sega tipik of Mauritius, the dances of Myriam Gourfink or David Wampach, or else the company Roc in Lichen, some approaches will offer a deepening of our knowledge of historical dances, while others will explore the geographies and stratigraphy of dance. From Sacre #2, after Nijinsky, to nazirkom, a comic Uyghur dance (China and Central Asia), these projects display a historic and aesthetic diversity: from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s infernal ballets, to the question of archiving, taking in the reactivation of choreographic fragments or else the analytical inventory of archives (from Francine Lancelot, Wilfride Piollet and Jean Guizerix), from the unusual encounter between François Malkovsky and Pierre Conté, to a study of the archives of the notator Robert Crang, from the catalogue of Deborah Hay’s writings to a contextual reflection, in a variety of actions concerning transitional spaces, thresholds and traces. These research and notation presentations (lasting about 45 minutes) are open to everyone, within the limit of available places.

17.01.2019
The dramatic demands required from dancers in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s infernal ballets: the example of the fourth act of Zoroastra

By Édith Lalonger
The Kbach Bat Chha Banchos repertoire of Cambodian classical dance 
By Polina Manko
Valorisation of the Francine Lancelot archive
By Denis Mercier

24.01.2019
Ver Sacrum [notation of Sacre #2 by Dominique Brun]

By Maud Pizon, Virginie Mirbeau
François Malkovsky, Pierre Conté: crossed trajectories around movement
By Florence Huyche, Catherine Bros, Noël Mairot 
Forming a repertoire from the Piollet-Guizerix archive collection and creative developments 
By Camille Desmarest

31.01.2019
Nazirkom, a comic dance in the tradition of convivial Uyghur banquets (China, Uyghur Region, Central Asia) 

By Mukaddas Mijit
Dance today in India
By Annette Leday
The sega tipik dance of Mauritius: traditions, aesthetic intimacy and practices from the
body-in-dance archive
By Caroline Déodat

7.02.2019
Genealogy of a somatic thought and choreographic heritage

By Julie Nioche, Fabienne Compet, Géraldine Gourbe
Roc in Lichen and a vertical support, an original exploration space 
By Laura de Nercy, Bruno Dizien, Mercedes Fazio Susana, Dominique Brunet, Joanne Clavel 
Using the terrain: a search situated around a dancing spatiality
By Rémy Héritier, Léa Bosshard
A Catalogue of Steps of DD Dorvillier: practices of documentation and archiving 
By Deanna Dorvillier, Myrto Katsiki

14.02.2019
Catalogue raisonné of Deborah Hay’s writings

By Laurent Pichaud
The archives of Robert Crang, notator 
By Sophie Jacotot, Simone Clamens-Crang, Marina Nordera
Myriam Gourfink’s Amas Notation, a piece for eight dancers
By Amandine Bajou
David Wampach’s Battement Notation 
By Valeria Giuga