Great dance lesson with Murray Louis

recorded at the CND 15 February 2011

Great dance lessons are a means for discovering the practice and the theory of a specific teaching, the universe of a “master”, pedagogical approaches and different aesthetics. The public is invited to participate, in close-up, in the work of professional dancers in a way that has never been seen before.

« Nik was like an oak tree. All sorts of trees that produce different seeds exist in nature. Some […] fall close to the tree and reproduce the same tree whilst others are carried further away, create their own life and are different. Nikolais ensured that his seeds would find their own path, that they would not remain in his neighbourhood and that they would not copy him. […] he asked [them] to use the clear vocabulary that he had created to enlighten the Art of Dance. He, himself, did not stick to his own tracks and made sure he journeyed on the path that was moving, that his soul told him to follow… »

Murray Louis in « Le Prisme Nikolais », Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, 2004

Updating: February 2012