Research and notation exposés

“From avant-deux to avant-deux, description and documentation of a meta-repertory in Western France”
by Marc Clerivet, Tristan Jézéquel

As exhaustive a survey as possible of avant-deux versions collected in western France, combined with a typological study synthesizing the forms, movements and steps used to identify its invariants and fundamental structures. 

“The choreographic repertoire of Kuttalam M. Selvam, hereditary master of Bharatanāṭyam dance”.
by Joël Riou, Ofra Hoffman

A documentation in score form of the technique and repertoire of Kuttalam M. Selvam, son of master Muthuswamy Pillai (1921-1992), whose teaching takes place mainly in private lessons, and consists of specific sequences adapted for each of his students.

“Epémé dance of the Hadza of Tanzania”
by Danièle Lévêque, Philippe Geslin

Responding to a request from the Hadza hunter Nyéréré Kishawali, the notation of this ritual of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania, which is performed on a dark night according to a codified choreography, without music, to the rhythm of chants and whistles.