Publications diverses en anglais autour de la danse, de la performance et des arts. 

The Ethics of Art - Ecological Turns in the Performing Arts

edited by Guy Cools & Pascal Gielen
Publisher: Valiz/Antennae Series (2014)
Language: English
ISBN13: 978-9-078-08887-5

The Ethics of Art explores the growing ethical consciousness within the artistic community, as it relates to art's production and distribution mechanisms. It attempts to show how the artistic community engages in creative, social dialogue based upon the potential of the body. The first of this book's two sections, "Ecosophy," focuses on eco-art practices and the ways in which the ethical turn in the arts implies a greater receptivity to our environment. The second section addresses the contemporary dance scene as an example of this phenomenon, showing how it exhibits renewed interest in "caring" for one's body, rather than transgressing it, both on the individual level and on that of the larger "body politic" of cooperation and collaboration. In this volume, the singular voices of artists are as important as the scholarly contributions.
Text by Karolien Byttebier, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Guy Cools, Arne De Boever, Pascal Gielen, Kathelin Gray, Sébastien Hendrickx, Navtej Johar, Denise Kenney, Mala Kline, Jeroen Peeters, Frans Poelstra, Christel Stalpaert, Robert Steijn, Lise Uyterhoeven, Benjamin Verdonck, Sara Wookey.

what remains and is to come - a document

by Katrina Brown & Rosanna Irvine
Publisher: Brown & Irvine (2014)
Language: English
ISBN13: 978 1 85924 332

This is an artist book and document of the live performance work with texts by Ramsay Burt, Ivana Ivković and Mark Leahy. Photographic images, video stills, performance scores and the texts operate together to bring another experience of the work.
In what remains and is to come Brown and Irvine work with charcoal, paper, body and breath treating each material as equal in the process. The performance is an activation of material processes - a generating and erasing of large-scale prints - bodies moving through paper and charcoal - charcoal clinging to bodies.

Embodied Lives

edited by Katya Bloom, Margit Galanter and Sandra Reeve
Publisher: Triarchy Press (2014)
Language: English
ISBN13: 978-1-909470-32-3

Since the mid-80s, Prapto's moving/dancing has inspired many thousands of people in the West, and many more in his native Java, who have witnessed, worked with or been otherwise influenced by his Amerta Movement practice.
But what is this non-stylised Amerta Movement practice? And what is it about Prapto's work that so touches the lives of therapists, artists, musicians, dancers, teachers, performers, monastics and laypeople from all walks of life?
To answer these questions, this new book brings together the experiences of 30 movement practitioners from Indonesia, Europe, North and South America and Australasia. As their chapters show, their personal and professional lives have all been affected by their long-term studies and interactions with Prapto.
The common denominator for all the authors is the exploration of their own movement as a way of deepening their connection to themselves, to each other and, at the same time, to their respective worlds.
These chapters all also share the potency that comes from writing from lived experience, rather than writing about something with distance.