Dance

For the first time, Gisèle Vienne presents all the dolls she has staged throughout her career.

An encounter between dance and visual arts.

Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.

An analysis of the processes by which certain seemingly innocuous popular forms of modernity are used to serve fascism, through the example of synchronized dancing, which was imbued with the symbolism of Nazi domination.

Camouflage theorized as an expanded ecological and choreographic tactic.

The catalog accompanying the provocative performance installation by Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger, presented at the 61st Venice Biennale.

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

The first book dedicated to the collective of artists, dancers, set designers, and musicians who profoundly transformed the practice of choreography in France and beyond in the 1980s.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

The choreographic in cinema.

Emma Merabet explores non-anthropocentric forms of performance, in which humans are no longer the focus of attention, and in which non-human elements (materials, objects, animals, machines, natural phenomena, etc.) become fully-fledged presences and agents.

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Mogli invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts, and invites us to suspend our perceptions of reality.

Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the "Asian Squat" as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.

Yoann Sarrat presents a collection that showcases his practice of performative writing combined with tattooing (with and without ink—which he calls “dermographic poetry”) and dance.

Five dance pieces and an iconographic imaginary in convulsion: making the most of these ingredients, Alexandra Balona engages with the work of Cabo Verdean choreographer and dancer Marlene Monteiro Freitas.

This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.

A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.

Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).

L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.

24 transcribed public conversations led by Xavier Le Roy with artists and cultural workers, creating a space where Le Roy's work meets the experiences of his guests.

A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.

A panoramic, cross-border exploration of performative practices in literature, art, dance, theater and more.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Moglia invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts. This second issue of Les Feuilles (The Leaves) spreads out, explores horizontality, breaks through and perseveres in this perspective. A way of trying not to go backwards, or in reverse.

A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.

A previously unreleased theatre soundtrack made for Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, whom Peter Rehberg had a decade long collaboration with until his untimely passing in 2021. A psychological journey through the mental effects of sound on space and subsequently the mind.

One minute of dance a day for a decade: a look back at choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier's daily act of poetic resistance, on the edge of situated dance, philosophy and performance.

An encounter between dance and visual arts.

Retrospective monograph.

This edition presents the research of Brazilian choreographer, performer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman and "post-pornographer" Acauã Shereya during her Master's degree in choreography and performance at ICI/CCN Montpellier.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.

A personal and intimate look behind the scenes of Meg Stuart's creative process over more than a decade.

A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.

A stunning look at Stravinski's The Rite of Spring, recreated by choreographer Dominique Brun with thirty dancers in 2013.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.

This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.

A zine and exercise book about the applied art of questioning, by the writer Cordula Daus and the choreographer Charlotta Ruth.

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Moglia invites authors and researchers to write with her, what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts. In this first issue of Les Feuilles (The Leaves), through verticality, dizziness and risk, it is a question of strength and consideration.

Conversations about embodied strategies of knowledge production and knowledge transmission based on the choreographic and curatorial practices of about fifteen international choreographers, performers, dramaturges and curators.

A book of poetic texts by the performance artist, choreographer, musician and writer.

Dancer and playwright Esther Meunier Corfdyr ventures into sleeping territories.

The artist record Call and Response brings together pieces created in connection with performances and exhibitions by Jimmy Robert, including a booklet wrapped around the record.

This publication presents research conducted by choreographer Mor Demer over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). Against the backdrop of her artistic process, Mor Demer unfolds a reflection on the production and configuration of choreographic materials, as well as on the body and the practices and fictions of which it is composed.

This publication presents research conducted by Berlin-based choreographer and performer Jule Flierl over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). This text manages to maintain a sense of orality, of vocality, within a written format. It is at once a description, an analysis, a score, a piece of music, a voice, etc.

This publication presents research conducted by visual artist and choreographer Clarissa Bauman over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). Here, writing becomes movement, a weaving of words, gestures, images, and drawings that rub against each other in a dialogue articulated from page to page.

A musical work born of residencies for two musicians and a dancer in three natural parks in France, tuned to these three geographies as open-air studios, in dialogue with the mineral, plant and animal environment.

In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labor haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery.