Dance

 
 
Pierre Bal-Blanc - Collective Exhibition for a Single Body - The Private Score – The Licence
2020
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
sold out
A score of performative gestures, drawn from the conceptual art and body art scenes from Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cathy Josefowitz -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Retrospective monograph documenting the exceptional yet little-known journey of Cathy Josefowitz (1956-2014), painter, designer, dancer and musician.
Julie Perrin - Composer en danse - Un vocabulaire des opérations et des pratiques
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
A lexical survey on compositional practice in contemporary dance.
Tarantismo - Odyssey of an Italian ritual
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flee
sold out
Publication documenting a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, used to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider. It gathers contributions by artists, sociologists, anthropologists, scientists, and priests, and features a large ensemble of photographs.
Tarantismo - Odyssey of an Italian ritual – Limited Edition (book + 2 vinyl LP)
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flee
sold out
Limited edition including a double LP compilation and a 168-page publication gathering a complete documentation on Tarantismo, a project dedicated to a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider.
Les Écritures bougées - Une anthologie
2018
French edition
Mix
sold out
An anthology of texts by writers, artists, choreographers, poets and performers who think about the relationships between body, writing and textuality.
Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? - The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This collective publication discusses the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art, marking one of the most significant set of developments in the art field over the last decade.
Sounds from the Archipelago - An Introduction to the Lush Indonesian Music Tradition – Vol. 1 (vinyl LP)
2017
various
sold out
This first volume gathers traditional music from different areas of the Indonesian archipelago, featuring music from Sulawesi, The Moluccas Islands (Spice Islands) and Central Java.
Sounds from the Archipelago - An Introduction to the Lush Indonesian Music Tradition – Vol. 2 (vinyl LP)
2017
various
sold out
This second volume dedicated to traditional music from the Indonesian archipelago covers music from the vast island of Sumatra (West Indonesia), The Moluccas Islands and the island of Bali.
Catherine Contour - Une plongée avec Catherine Contour - Créer avec l\'outil hypnotique
2017
French edition
Naïca
sold out
Choreographer Catherine Contour is a pioneer in the use of hypnosis within the creation process. This monograph features photographic documentation, short essays by specialists, an a small illustrated manual for artists to experiment with the hypnotic tool.
Kaleidoscope - Spring 2017
2017
English edition
miscellaneous
sold out
Special dance & contemporary art issue: interviews with Anne Imhof, Ligia Lewis, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins; Francesca Gavin on dance in pop culture; FKA Twigs; Merce Cunningham; a round table with Maria Hassabi, Will Rawls and Cally Spooner; Peter Halley; Loretta Fahrenholz's Two A.M.; 1970s magazine Avalanche; Spyros Staveris; a conversation with Nobuyoshi Araki and Abraham Cruzvillegas; Bjarne Melgaard; an interview with George Condo by Maurizio Cattelan; an introduction to Lou Dallas; and much more (included a fanzine by visionary designer Rick Owens).
Flash Art
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
sold out
This issue explores the interfaces between clubs, clubbing culture and creative communities.
Body luggage - Migration of gestures
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
sold out
A collection of essays that imagines the migration of cultural signs across borders, of body language as the inalienable signs we carry with us, even if they are the only luggage we are able to carry. By placing history alongside artistic mutations, Body luggage asks questions of how avant-garde forms transmit or are provoked.
Noé Soulier - Actions, mouvements et gestes
2016
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Printed books
sold out
French dancer and choreographer reports on various relationships to the movement in dance, relying as much on classical and contemporary performances as on concepts borrowed from philosophers, linguists and art theorists.
Ulla von Brandenburg - It Has a Golden Yellow Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Part monograph, part artist's book, a publication accompanying Ulla von Brandenburg's eponymous video work—a “danced film” dedicated to color.
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.
Inferno
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
sold out
Inferno sheds a sharp light on the news of contemporary art and scenes. In this issue: Yoko Ono, Fischli & Weiss, Trajal Harrell, Jodorowsky, Cindy Sherman, Sigmar Polke, Dance in New York, Berlin special feature, Philippe Parreno, Paul McCarthy, Ai Weiwei, Castellucci's Moses und Aron, Arty Lisbon, Lyon and Istanbul's Biennials, Winter-Spring 2016 program...
Mouvement
2015
French edition
Mouvement
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Featuring: Julien Mabiala Bissila, Benjamin Dupé, Édouard Louis & Guillaume Bresson, Tunisian film societies, Marie Losier, portfolios by Florian van Roekel and Simone Holliger, Life? or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon...
Disabled Theater
2015
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
sold out
Using Jérôme Bel's Disabled Theater as the basis for a broad, interdisciplinary discussion of performance and disability, this series of essays explores the intersections of politics and aesthetics, inclusion and exclusion, and identity and empowerment. Including interviews with Jérôme Bel and with the actors of Zurich's Theater HORA.
Stephen O\'Malley - Eternelle Idole (2 vinyl LP)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
The long awaited documentation of the score of Paris based choreographer Gisèle Vienne's eponymous artistic ice skating choreographic piece.
Gabriel Saloman - Movement Building - Vol. 1 (vinyl LP)
2014
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
First of two volumes of the “Movement Building” series, dedicated to Gabriel Saloman's music for contemporary dance.
Dance, Politics & Co-Immunity
2013
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
sold out
This volume brings together multidisciplinary essays dedicated to the question of how dance, both in its historical and in its contemporary manifestations, is intricately linked to conceptualisations of the political.
Julie Perrin - Figures de l\'attention - Cinq essais sur la spatialité en danse
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.
Meg Stuart - Are we here yet?
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
Monograph / artist book by American choreographer: essays, documents, reflexions, discussions, images...
Meg Stuart - On va où, là ?
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
Monograph / artist book (available in English edition).
William Forsythe - Suspense
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Presenting new installations and films by one of the most significant and innovative choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance today.
Yvonne Rainer - Une femme qui... - Ecrits, entretiens, essais critiques
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.
Isabelle Launay - Entretenir - A propos d\'une danse contemporaine
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
An interview with French dancer and choreographer.
Nicolas Schöffer -
1963
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
sold out
The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
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.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.
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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