DEM'ARTS cross-disciplinary seminar-Third session

Cécile Proust and Jacques Hoepffner, Armando Menicacci 

Cécile Proust, Choreographer, dancer, researcher and Jacques Hoepffner, photographer, video and digital artist

"What age brings to dance"

Ce que l'âge apporte à la danse (What age brings to dance) is a series of works by Cécile Proust and Jacques Hœpffner in multiple forms (documentary choreography, video-dance, interviews) based on the postulate that age brings to dance. If only the poetics of gesture of young bodies are valued, dance is deprived of other poetics. Poetic choices are also political choices.
These choreographic artists who dance beyond the age of 70, by virtue of their careers, give us access to multiple choreographic worlds: 
Germaine Acogny, Malou Airaudo, Odile Azagury, Dominique Boivin, Susan Buirge, Françoise and Dominique Dupuy, Jean Guizerix, Malavika, Anne Martin, Jean Rochereau, la Tati flamenco, Elisabeth Schwartz, Elsa Wolliaston, Kshemavati Kalamandalam, Kottakkal Nandakumaran, Sadanam Krishnankutty.
The results of this research are shown in an interactive documentary device that brings together the various elements collected.

Armando Menicacci Artist/Professor, Université du Québec, Montréal

"Corporality as a battlefield"

If corporeality is the field where conduct is developed (Venturini, 1995), where habitus crystallize (Bourdieu 1979, 1980) as the construction of accepted perceptual-motor models and authorized axiologies, corporeality can also be the primary site where, through the creation of a new gesture, acts of resistance to these pressures can occur. Dance and theater are precisely those arts, more straightforwardly than others, in which these tensions are made explicit in corporeality itself. We'll be looking at how gestures arise from theories of sensation, and how they operate politically in today's technological society.