"Le Concours Chorégraphique International de Bagnolet est devenu, au fil des ans, un événement majeur dans le monde de la danse.
Dirigé par Lorrina Niclas, le Concours veut favoriser la reconnaissance d'auteurs chorégraphes et stimuler le mouvement chorégraphique international. En aidant à la promotion de la création chorégraphique dans la pluralité de ses formes d'expression et de recherche, en valorisant les auteurs et leurs oeuvres, il permet au plus grand nombre de découvrir cette création.
Il est un moment de notre action pour le droit à la culture, qui lie indissociablement recherche de la qualité et recherche d'un large public.
Il participe ainsi de ces initiatives diverses qui font de la Seine-Saint-Denis un département phare dans le domaine culturel."--P.5

Dépouillement: Part 1. "A breath of fresh air, an account of a project / Brenda Mallon and Miranda Tufnell. -- Part 2. Approches to practice. - Breath. - Touch. - The practice of saying yes / Eva Karczag. - Between you and me. - Self care in times of caos and violence / Michal Shahak. - Getting your bearings: movement and sensing. - Towards meaning : body, health and imagination. - "Chance of fair" : writing with people with mental and physical health issue / Kay Syrad. -- Part 3. Laying the foundations: movement in ealry years development / Karen Adcock Doyle and Jasmine Pash. -- Part 4. Practitionner accounts. - What is this pill called dance? : music and movement in hospital / Filipa Pereira-Stubbs. - Harry : the story of a child in hospital / Lisa Dowler, co-written with Kellie Rixon. - Dancing recall : making connections / Daphne Cushnie. - Moving forward with Parkinson's / Amanda Fogg. - Breath and becoming in mental health and addiction / Sister Bridget Folkard. - A dance for buddug / Cai Tomos. - What is health?

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"(...) The sixty essays here have been selected not only because they represent the work of the finest dance writers in America and Europe, but also for the particular questions they pose about the definition of dance, the ways in which dance conveys meaning, the relationship of dance to the other arts, and much more.
The book contains contributions by popular critics such as Arlene Croce and Edwin Denby, choreographers such as Noverre, Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, and Yvonne Rainer, historians such as Lincoln Kirstein and Selma Jeanne Cohen, and theoricians such as Mallarmé, Susanne Langer, and Paul Valéry. Also included are writers not generally associated with dance, among them Roland Barthes (on the semiotics of the striptease), Frank Kermode (on poetry and dance), R. P. Blackmur (on Balanchine), Eric Bentley (on Martha Graham), and George Bernard Shaw (on nineteenth-century ballet in London. (...)"--P. [4] de la couv.

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