Martine Pisani
Martine Pisani lives and works in Paris. She began her career as a dancer in the 1980s and trained via classes and courses in contemporary dance. David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer and Odile Duboc were the teachers who made the greatest impact. She performed for several years with the Dunes group, Madeleine Chiche and Bernard Misrachi, with whom she also collaborated on artistic projects and in teaching. She founded her own company in 1992.
Nurtured by her successive encounters – David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer and also Odile Duboc, whom she willingly cites as the most influential – and by her involvement with the Dunes group in Marseilles, the self-taught dancer of the eighties became a choreographer in the early nineties, founding her own company. Piece after piece, she worked by ricochets and rebounds, usually insisting on forcing her way down a path without having sufficiently explored its potential at a previous stage. She soon adopted as a premise the idea that the simple fact of thinking is already an action. She is also consistent, always keeping hold of the idea that playfulness is necessary to set bodies and thought in motion. With this characteristic detachment, Martine Pisani looks for the space between. She tries to find the necessary space for meaning to remain open. She tries to find the right distance between being and playing. She shows that to know how to play, it is sometimes necessary to take oneself seriously.
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Updating: November 2010