Danse savante

The ancestral separation between scholarly dance and popular dance continues to the point that « dancing » and « knowing how to dance » still designate two different activities today: popular dance practiced by all, and scholarly dance reserved for professionals only. Contemporary dance has echoed this cleavage, even if this opposition tends to diminish recently, some choreographers joining the scientist to the popular to invent a new form of dance.
This is the case of Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, who together do not hesitate to mix styles – Jamaican dub, dance on pointe, expressionist dance, twerk, house…

Source: Corps rebelles

More information: http://corpsrebelles.museedesconfluences.fr/

The exhibition Corps rebelles invited the public to discover contemporary dance. She presented the different approaches of the dancing body, illustrated by emblematic choreographies.

The question of interpretation was also at the heart of the exhibition with eight versions of The Rite of Spring created by eight great choreographers. The exhibition continued by treating notation as a tool for memorizing and transmitting a gesture.

Source: Corps rebelles

More information: http://corpsrebelles.museedesconfluences.fr/