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CN D Pantin
Mathieu Bouvier is an art researcher and holds a doctorate in aesthetics from the University of Paris 8. He has frequently worked in the field of contemporary dance as a video artist, scenographer and dramaturge, notably with Loïc Touzé, Yasmine Hugonnet, Catherine Contour, Mylène Benoit, Vincent Dupont, Sorour Darabi and DD Dorvillier. For ten years now, along with Loïc Touzé, he has been developing a programme of theoretical and practical research into work on the figure in dance. Supported by La Manufacture in Lausanne and the CN D, this project has led to the publication of the website pourunatlasdesfigures.net. He teaches art theory at universities and art schools (Paris 8, La Manufacture, Exerce Master in Montpellier).
Loïc Touzé is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. He creates choreographic pieces, makes films, and is involved in projects with other artists from the fields of music, theatre, circus and visual arts. Loïc Touzé teaches at La Manufacture (Lausanne), the TNS (Strasbourg), Brussels, Nantes and Paris. From 2001 to 2006 he was co-director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers with Yvane Chapuis and François Piron. Since 2011, he has been the artistic director of Honolulu, a place of creation, residency and transmission in Nantes. His activity is supported by the association oro.
Traps to see, traps to dance
“We invite you to play games, such as: how do you do a mantic dance? What is it? Divinatory dance, telepathic dance? These are games to intrigue in the making of the gesture and in the experience of the gaze, serious fictions to bring forth dance. For a dance to appear, it is sometimes necessary to set traps for it: traps for seeing, traps for dancing. It’s magic, if you like, but above all it’s very pragmatic.”
Loïc Touzé & Mathieu Bouvier
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