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Dance & Performing Arts

Miscellaneous

 
 
Le travail de l\'acteur·rice - Opérations, protocoles, exercices pour le jeu
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.
Meg Stuart - Let\'s Not Get Used to This Place - Works 2008-2023
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A personal and intimate look behind the scenes of Meg Stuart's creative process over more than a decade.
Lieux et milieux des arts vivants - Performer l\'institution
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.
Art performance, manœuvre, coefficients de visibilité
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
Delphine Edy - Thomas Ostermeier - Explorer l\'autre face du réel pour recréer l\'œuvre en scène
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
How Thomas Ostermeier's productions explore the links between literature and theatrical art in order to question, through a complex realism that he reinvents, what the works have to say about the political and social reality of our present.
Dominique Pitoiset - DPNF1420 - Works 2014-2020
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A retrospective in images of the activities of the Compagnie Pitoiset in ten theatrical creations, with a long analysis by Daniel Loayza.
Anne Bénichou - Rejouer le vivant - Les reenactments, des pratiques culturelles et artistiques (in)actuelles
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Cinquante ans de révolution chorégraphique du Ballet-Théâtre contemporain au CCN - Ballet de Lorraine 1968-2018
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
The history of the CCN (Centre Chorégraphique National) – Ballet de Lorraine, the first National Choreographic Center in France: a look back over fifty years of history for a choreographic revolution, by Agnès Izrine and Laurent Goumarre.
Lenio Kaklea - Practical Encyclopædia - Detours
2019
quadrilingual edition (English / German / Greek / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Since 2016, choreographer Lenio Kaklea has been collecting the practices of Europeans. Taking to the streets and pathways of Athens, Aubervilliers, Essen, Guissény, Nyon, and Poitiers, she has gathered nearly 600 unique stories. This compilation testifies to the familiarity and diversity of habits, of rituals, and of trades that compose and distinguish these territories.
Spacescapes - Dance & Drawing since 1962
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
Spacescapes - Danse & dessin depuis 1962
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
Choreographing Exhibitions
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators (Kenneth Anger, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Lacey, Alan Licht, Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Claude Rutault, Catherine Wood...).
Eric Vautrin - Le cinquième mur - Formes scéniques contemporaines & nouvelles théâtralités
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
sold out
A collection of interviews and studies of performances that constitutes a crossing of the contemporary theatrical and choreographic landscape, re-examining the critical and theoretical tools that allow us to apprehend and think about current scenic forms.
Art performance, manœuvre, coefficients de visibilité
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
sold out
Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
Feminine Futures 2 - Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams – Avant-garde Expressive & Abstract Dance Through Photography & Experimental Film
2025
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
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