Staying in shape: making your body’s knowledge speak out

Coordinated by Sarah Andrieu, Alice Godfroy and Joëlle Vellet, University Cote d’Azur, CTEL, UFR LASH – Department of Arts – Dance Section of the UNS, MSHS Sud-Est.
In partnership with CN D Centre national de la danse et le Festival de Danse de Cannes – Côte d’Azur France, and with the support of aCD.

The knowledge of dancers when they perform beyond the body’s movement, is preferably passed on by word of mouth. Those concerned use fitness methods that seek to have the specific nature of this little-broadcast knowledge brought forth, orally. What relational techniques can be used to have the resources involved spoken about? What should be the fate of the infra-verbal equipment (eloquence of silence, posture, gestures) that accompanies the dancers’ words? Bringing together researchers and artists, this “colloquium-workshop” will question various fitness practices while bringing to light, directly through interviews, the performance and efficiency of the dialogical word.