02.02.23 — 14:00
CN D Pantin
“J. J. ~ reading, translating, (re)imagining Jill Johnston’s writing”
by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel, & Rosanna Puyol
A collective translation project around the written works of Jill Johnston, a 1960’s NYC critic, performer and lesbian activist who supported the artists of the Judson Dance Theater [Dance Journal, Village Voice], and who participated in dance performances and happenings with Deborah Hay, Robert Morris, John Cage and Yvonne Rainer.
“Moving words in space: artistic practice and multi-disciplinary pedagogical approaches – language and movement“
by Agnès Benoit
Elaboration of a pedagogical approach exploring the articulation between dancing and learning a second language, and the process of stumbling on new words and movements, through a series of conversations with American artists and academics from Bennington College, such as Susan Sgorbati, Isabelle Kaplan, and Simone Forti.
“What aging brings to dance”
by Cécile Proust
Realization of filmed interviews of a selection of artists around or above the age of 70 who have danced and still dance several styles of dance – whether they have willingly retired from the stage or not; we will analyze the reasons of their retirement, and which artistic, aesthetic, symbolical, kinesthetic, perceptive, psychological, political and social structures can be upheld and organized to keep dancing after the “traditional” age of retirement.