Event recording

Virtual launch – December 9th, 2020

Date
December 9, 2020
Place
Online
Length
1h 05min
Keywords
La documentation en danse, Boîtes chorégraphiques

Launch of the zine La danse de Hanako – Hanako’s Dance and Ouvrir la boîte. Regards sur les boîtes chorégraphiques et la documentation en danse.

Some 20 dance artists, writers and visual artists share their experiences in these two publications.

Project

La danse de Hanako — Hanako’s Dance

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Coordinated by Catherine Lavoie-Marcus and designed by Emilie Allard, this fanzine features the traces (notations, drawings and accounts) of ten writers and illustrators who responded in real time to an improvised dance by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines. It is a perfect example of documentation as a creative…

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In this virtual launch held on December 9, 2020, some 20 dance artists, writers and visual artists shared their experiences in two publications: La danse de Hanako – Hanako’s Dance and Ouvrir la boîte. Regards sur les boîtes chorégraphiques et la documentation en danse. These…

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