Co-edited by Les presses du réel and CN D Centre national de la danse in partnership with association PI:ES Alain Buffard and the support of ministère de la Culture – Direction générale de la création artistique
With texts of Alain Buffard, Fanny de Chaillé, Marc Domage & Jean Louis Chapuis, Matthieu Doze, Lou Forster, François Frimat, Élisabeth Lebovici, Xavier Le Roy, Alain Ménil, Lorrina Niclas, Mélanie Papin, Anne Pellus, Frédéric Pouillaude, Enora Rivière, Laurent Sebillotte, Noémie Solomon, Cécile Zoonens
Alain Buffard, Good Boy is an invitation to discover and question the multiple work created by the choreographer Alain Buffard (1960-2013), a successor of the major choreographic figures of the 1980s, who has contributed to the revival of the French scene. His own story and personal mythologies are entwined with a number of issues particular to his time, from Good Boy to Baron Samedi, from the onset of AIDS to post-colonialism studies.
This book, which brings together rich testimonies, a large iconography and many unpublished archive documents, sheds light on the journey, the performances and the thought of an artist who, through both a radical nature and fruitful questioning, created a complex work, ever- living and ever enriched by unresolved interrogations about the world and therefore, ourselves.