DANSE: Celebrate this new book on contemporary dance

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy

invites you to a book launch event for

DANSE: A Catalogue

Thursday, June 4 | 6:30 pm – 8 pm

The French Embassy

972 Fifth Avenue at 79th Street, Manhattan

including DANSE: A Glossary, featuring brief and experimental presentations on a series of keywords vital to contemporary dance practices.

Participants include Michelle Boulé, Jenn Joy, Richard Move, Valda Setterfield, Dean Moss, Chrysa Parkinson and Gerard & Kelly.

Noémie Solomon

DANSE: A Catalogue, edited by Noémie Solomon and published by les presses du reel and the French Embassy, is a collection of commissioned essays and dialogues by choreographic artists, writers, and curators on key issues in contemporary dance.

Click here to read an interview with Solomon.

DANSE is a four-year program (2014-2018) dedicated to contemporary dance exchanges between France and the U.S.

For more information, click here.

Free admission with RSVP at 
robin.guivarch@diplomatie.gouv.fr

Feminism: fierce and French: Join the conversation on Saturday, May 17

DD Dorvillier
(photo by Eileen Travell)

Danspace Project 

presents

Conversation Without Walls: 

DANSE to Diaries: French feminisms

Saturday, May 17 

3pm-5:30pm

In conjunction with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy's DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas, this conversation traces the legacies of French feminism – the fierce re-imagination of writing through sensuous intellect, an écriture for dancing as it touches on desire, on language, on power.

Moderator: Jenn Joy
with DD Dorvillier, Noémie Solomon, Emmanuelle Huynh, Liz Santoro, and Judy Hussie-Taylor

Following the Conversation, Danspace Project Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor will receive the insignia of Chevalier of the Ordre des arts et des Lettres for her significant contributions to the arts. The medal ceremony begins at 6:15pm with remarks from Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy, followed by a reception.

Admission: $10 suggested donation at the door. RSVP recommended. Click here or call (866) 811-4111.

Also this week, Danspace Project and DANSE will co-present Emmanuelle Huynh's A vida enorme/épisode 1, May 15-17, at Danspace Project. Describing the piece, performed with dancer Nuno Bizarro, Huynh writes, "In this story the language and the body celebrate the flesh of the world and its opacity." Click here for details and ticket information for A vida enorme/épisode 1.

For more information about DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas, click here.

Danspace Project
131 East 10th Street (at Second Avenue), Manhattan
(directions)

Alone and not so: Hilary Clark, Caroline Gravel, Taisha Paggett

Dance Magazine has just posted my review of Solos & Solitudes: Hilary Clark, Caroline Gravel, Taisha Paggett at Danspace Project--although, they've misspelled Taisha's last name. Perhaps that will be fixed by the time you see it. Click here to have a look!