PhD students’
workshop

Two mornings to explore the pathways of writing and reading, around the vast world of dance. Questions will be raised out-loud concerning the meaning and practices of two activities – writing and reading – which are usually solitary and intentionally silent. Put- ting university or choreographic research into words frequently means inventing a language. On the other hand, encountering another’s words comes down to diving into a potentially new language, which we adopt as we read it. Whether correlated or autonomous, how can these experiences among readers and writers be defined, and how are they conveyed?
What do we read? What do we write? How does reading influence what we dance, and what we see and say about dancing? In what way do the spectators’ or actors’ experiences work their way into writing? In this sphere of motion, how and why do we reach out for words and books and, in some cases, how do they come to us?


We will also be thinking about the mapping
of books: bookshops, libraries, and personal environments. Private or shared spaces, which can be frequented, public or secret, scholarly or intimate.
 Led by the dance PhD students’ workshop at the CN D / Recherche et Répertoires Chorégraphiques Department, this workshop is being coordinated by Marion Fournier (PhD student in art at the University of Lorraine, codirected by the Universität Leipzig), Oriane Maubert (PhD student in performing arts at the University Montpellier 3 Paul-Valéry) and Karine Montabord (PhD student in the history of art at the University of Grenoble).