For the past 30 years Michel Bernard has been exploring the act of dancing with rigour and passion.
The choice of selected texts, many of them hitherto unpublished, is the result of that work, which focused on working themes: exploring the various aspects of the dancing corporeality and examining the processes of choreographic creation and subsequently of perception and memorising of the dance show.
The list goes on with the study of leading figures and ends with the analysis of the status of dance education in the French institutional system.
A path for seeking a word that in many respects is misleading: the “body”.