09.02.23 — 14:00
CN D Pantin
“Consolidating the African choreographic patrimony: focus on Benin”
by Anne Décoret-Ahiha
This paper wishes to contribute to actualizing the field of research on contemporary African choreographic creation by discussing the archiving process of African dance, in a context where the conservation and appropriation of African art – with objects recently given back to their original owners by the French government – is now hotly debated.
“Dancing bodies in the works of Bernardo Montet. (Re-)thinking relations”
by Isabelle Élizéon & Dimitri Tsiapkinis
A study of the work of Bernardo Montet – and particularly, of Issê Timossé, a play co-written with writer Pierre Guyotat –, through the perspective of an “aesthetics of displacement”, and the gestures and choreographic writing which echo a transcultural movement of the complexification of bi-racial imageries.
“Los tránsitos de un gesto: studying choreographic transfers between Chile and Germany”
by Valentina Morales Valdés
A study of choreographic transfers between Chile and Germany through two main figures: Patricio Bunster (1924-2006) and Joan Turner (born in 1927), who were both trained by Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder, in the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, then in Folkwang in Essen, in the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz in Dresde and the Espiral dance center, which later became an instrumental institution in the training of Chilean dancers.