Philosophical meals and naps

There are many ways of thinking: in dance studios, we think in movements, in words, in images. Eat & Sleep & Think offers a series of meals and naps as contexts to practice philosophy with dance questions. We’ll read and comment texts from Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Donna Haraway, Erin Manning, and many other philosophers that have questioned movement, processes, and outcomes. What do we do when we move? What do we feel and how do we feel others? What is eating? What is sleeping? And can those things teach us something about dancing?

Romain Bigé (PhD) is a Professeur Agrégé of Philosophy currently based in Paris, France. An École Normale supérieure alumnus and a dance improviser, he dedicated his dissertation to his practice of movement practice (Le partage du mouvement, École Normale supérieure, 2017) which led him to curate two exhibition-performances for the Musée de la danse in Rennes (Gestes du Contact Improvisation, 2018), and for Culturgest in Lisbon (Steve Paxton / Drafting Interior Techniques, 2019). He teaches philosophy to a variety of audiences: highschoolers, college students, dancers, somatic practionners, and he is currently an associate researcher to SACRe le laboratoire, and Labodanse (CNRS).