Study day: "Penser par le corps: Danse, recherche et création" (Thinking through the body: dance, research and creation)

1) Lecture by Olga de Soto: "In the footsteps of the Green Table. Danse macabre de l'entre-deux-guerres" (10am-12.30pm)

Her work focuses on the themes of memory, imprint, trace and transmission. In the early 2000s, she began developing research and creative projects whose distinctive feature is that they are the result of lengthy research processes based on extensive documentation work. In particular, she sought out the spectators who saw la Table verte in 1946 and launched a series of interviews over 6 years, in Europe. The work focuses on facets of memory and transmission. What does dance do to the body? What does memory do to dance? For she also asked herself about the transmission of this piece and the passing of age: what place do the elders have in this process?

More on Olga de Soto

"La Table Verte" digital dance sheet

2) Rodolphe Fouillot: "Encounter at the heart of dance" (14h-16h30)

The afternoon will focus more on sensitive experience as a motor for progress, openness (social, cultural, professional,...), what gesture brings and its transmission around and from the work of Rodolphe Fouillot. Rodolphe is a choreographer, dancer and citizen committed to the democratization of dance practice for a diversity of structures, audiences, social and artistic situations.

Rodolphe Fouillot biography

You're probably familiar with the film he co-constructed, around inclusion work in difficult school environments, "De rage et de Danse" co-produced by Canal+, the Paris Opera and Flair Production, directed by Stéphane Carrel in November 2019. He offers two video files to learn about the issues he will be discussing.

He will speak on the notion of exchanges, of encounters with the Other based on these different experiences and specifically in connection with impeded audiences (broad definition: visible or invisible disabilities, socio-cultural impediments in particular...)