Dance & Performing Arts

Gestes

 
Rooted in the scope of performing arts, dance, theatre and performance, the Gestes series appeals to the importance of gestures and body engagement to think and reinvent contemporary worlds. What do performing arts—their knowledge, their research, their methods, their use of the past, their perceptions—create as strengths for the present and its transformation within the Anthropocene era?
In accordance to the polymorphous and abundant landscape of scenic forms and practices, to the subtlety of the sensorial, somatic, situational and relational experiences carried out, Gestes intends to raise and publish hybrid and heterogeneous writing gestures: essays, reviews, research-creations, artists writings or catalogs, manifests, collections, memoirs, interviews, correspondences, scores, performance transcriptions, manuals or anti-manuals.
 
Series directed by Aurore Després.
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier - Une minute de danse par jour - 2015-2025 – Dix ans d\'une œuvre pour notre temps
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
forthcoming
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.
Esther Meunier Corfdyr - Corps endormis corps affranchis
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Dancer and playwright Esther Meunier Corfdyr ventures into sleeping territories.
Madeleine Abassade - Danser l\'imprévu - Une lecture politique et sensible des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.
Madeleine Abassade - Danser l\'imprévu - Une lecture politique et sensible des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.
Gestes en éclats - Art, danse et performance
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
sold out
Discourses, reflections and documents on performative and choreographic arts today.
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