Anne Collod

A graduate in biology and the environment, Anne Collod is a dancer and choreographer. Her work is focused on collective utopias, and articulates shows, research and pedagogy. She is interested in reinterpreting 20th century choreographic pieces from their scores, as well as the associated issues of transfer and transmission. Since 2003, she has been collaborating with the American choreographer Anna Halprin, the pioneer of post-modern dance, and in 2008 presented a reinterpretation of her piece Parades and Changes (1965). In 2016, there followed Blank Placard Dance (1967). In 2014, she created Le Parlement des Invisibles and Exposure, an in situ immersive performance for one female performer on an industrial site for the production of energy. Her next creation, Moving Alternatives, examines the representations of gender and exoticism as depicted in the early 20th century by the choreographers Ruth Saint-Denis and Ted Shawn. She is a member of the group Dingdingdong and a graduate in the Feldenkraïs method.

Anne Collod is proposing to reactivate and update collectively two sequences from Anna Halprin’s Parades & Changes. Based on everyday gestures and scores, these sequences will mean being able to explore different registers of motion and presence, to discover the processes of improvisation and collective creation developed by Halprin, to experience the work of interpretation and composition with a score, and to examine the effects and issues of reinterpreting today this major piece from the 1960s.