LITERATURES AND CONTRADANCES

5 Allée Antonio Machado, LA FABRIQUE

LITERATURES AND CONTRADANCES, centered around Jean-Marie Guilcher's La contredanse: a turning point in the history of dance in France, this journey will be an opportunity to question in the present what forms of power do to our attention, shape our spaces and orient our ways of 'seeing' the world as the bodies that move within it. From recreational practices to social struggles, the dance forms linked to contredanse through obedience to its principles or their own distortions punctuate our imaginations and memories; how legends, through fragment or step aside, allow us to…