Discover the world of dance via webdocs, parcours and virtual exhibitions. Our contents are divided into categories so you can easily choose between great artistic movements, society topics, artist portraits, institution portraits, etc.
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Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.
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Focus on the variety of bodies offered by contemporary dance and how to show these bodies: from complete nudity to the body completely hidden or covered.
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Stage theater and studio are not the only places of work or performance of a choreographic piece. Sometimes dancers and choreographers dance outside.
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Some shows are the meeting place of different trades. Here is a preview of some shows where the arts intersect on the stage of a choreographic piece.
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An encounter with Charles Picq, dance film director and videomaker.
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Here is a sample of extracts illustrating burlesque figures in Performances.
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A walk between different conceptions and receptions of genres in different styles and eras of dance.
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Discover how the notion of ritual makes sense in various dances through these extracts.
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The Dance Biennial created in 1984 through Guy Darmet’s initiative was enhanced with a novel event in 1996: the Défilé (a choreographed parade).
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The relationship between music and choreographic works varies throught dance history.
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This Parcours presents different Belgian choreographers who have marked history and participated in the creation of a "Belgian" style.
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The Dance Biennial is a major event held in Lyon every even-numbered year. Read on and discover the history of this adventure and the timeline of past editions.
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On 24th May 1959, Tatsumi Hijikata portrayed the character of the "Man" in the first presentation of a play called Kinjiki (Forbidden Colours).
The Ankoku Butoh was born,
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Choreographic creations sometimes include accessories to complement, nourish or constrain dance.
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Generally associated with circus arts, here is a Journey that will take you on a stroll through different artists from this world.
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<p>Since it was founded in 1984, the BNP Paribas Foundation has stood out for its long-standing backing of projects in a series of areas, including culture. In 1986, it committed to theatrical art to promote new works and lend its support to artists. Discover the different kinds of support provided by the Foundation.</p>
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Presentation of how choreographers are revisiting Folklore in contemporary creations.
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In Poland, the culture of traditional dances has been well maintained : they are still transmitted today. This parcours able a visit between those different dances.
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Some great shows are revisited through the centuries. Here are two examples of pieces reinterpreted by different choreographers.
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Created in Lyon in 1980, Maison de la Danse was the first-ever venue in Europe dedicated exclusively to dance. Welcoming over 150,000 spectators each season and some 200 performances, today the Maison de la Danse draws a large public keen on highly-unifying performances as well as on innovating and research-based works. The Maison de la Danse, a performance venue but also a European Hub for digital innovation and creation, invites you on a journey to discover its projects.
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Explanation of the term « State of the body » when it’s about dance.
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Dance and visual arts have often been inspiring for each other and have influenced each other. This Parcours can not address all the forms of their relations; he only tries to show the importance of plastic creation in some choreographies.
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In all the arts and here especially in dance, the artist sometimes creates to defend a cause, to denounce a fact, to disturb, to shock. Here is a panorama of some "committed" choreographic creations.
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Ballet’s evolution from its romantic form until néo-classicism.
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Découvrez de quelles manières ont collaboré chorégraphes et éléments percussifs.
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Dance is a rather vast term, which covers a myriad of specificities. These depend on the culture of a country, on a period, on a place. This Journey proposes a visit through dance genres and styles.
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Unconventional contemporary dance shows which reinvent the rapport to the stage.
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A collective work of screendance composed of 13 segments of one hour each. A tribute to the 1653 Louis XIV Ballet Royal de la Nuit.
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This Parcours introduces several extracts of works by contemporary Quebecois choreographers, situating them in an anthropological perspective.
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This parcours presents different video extracts in which hands are the center of the mouvement.
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This Parcours questions the idea that contemporary dance has multiples techniques. Different shows car reveal or give an idea about the different modes of contemporary dancer’s formations.
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A dance show is created in multiples steps between the enunciation of an initial desire which launch the project and the first representation. This parcours presents diff
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Dominique Bagouet created more than 45 shows over 15 years, some of which truly left a mark on contemporary dance from 1980 to 1992, the year of his passing. This Exhibition highlights the most emblematic of his work and screens several films about the transmission of Bagouet's oeuvre through the work conducted by the association Les Carnets Bagouet. The association was created by Bagouet's dancers shortly after his death.
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First part of the Parcours about dance in Quebec, these extracts present how bodies are being used in a very physical way.
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Panorama of contemporary dance practices in Italy during the 2000s.
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Panorama of different artistic collaborations, from « couples » of choreographers to creations involving musicians or plasticians