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Territoires partagés – Marie Claire Forté’s teaching notebook

Published
February 2020

Artist notebooks are fascinating. Here are a few pages from a notebook Marie Claire Forté used when she returned to teaching, six months after the birth of her daughter Imogen. Code of conduct to stay in dance, experiments related to her ideas… these pages are a brief incursion into Marie Claire’s intimate world: “find desire to danse / find organization, find disorganization.”

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Territoires Partagés

Dissemination

Territoires Partagés (November 18 to May 2020) was a website designed to observe and document dance training practices in Quebec. The site included sections with texts, interviews, podcasts and visual documents highlighting multiple practices. It was an opportunity for artists to explore the dance ecosystem,…

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