Philippe Guisgand

Philippe Guisgand is professor of dance universities at the University of Lille. He is a researcher at CEAC and leads the program “Dialogues between art and research”. He is a designer of a choreographic analysis path for which he has developed an original kinesic bias (“Reception of the choreographic spectacle: from a functional description to aesthetic analysis”, STAPS Review n ° 74, autumn 2006, 117 -130). He also works to better understand the means by which spectators give an account of their sensitive reception as well as the political consequences of aesthetic debates (“The workshops of the spectator, factories of the sensitive”, Quaderni n ° 83, winter 2013-2014, 59 -71). Specialist of the work of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (The Sons of Endless Intertwining, Septentrion, 2007, Anne Teresa of Keersmaeker, L’Epos, 2009 and Intimate Chords, Dance and Music at De Keersmaeker, Septentrion 2017), Finally, he is interested in the dialogues of the arts (“Demands and addresses: dance and music by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker” in Stephanie Schroedter (ed.), Zwischen Hören und Sehen, Würzburg, Koenigshausen & Neumann, 2012, 425-437) and to certain aspects of performativity (“About the notion of body condition” in Josette Féral (ed.), Performative Practices, Body Remix, Montreal / Rennes, University of Quebec Press / Rennes University Press, 2012, 223-239).