DANCE FIRST THINK LATER 2020

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Dance First. Think Later – An encounter between dance and visual arts explores an artistic realm on the intersection of dance and visual arts, two mutually nourishing fields, but which operate through very different modes of production and presentation. The project is a hybrid between an exhibition and a performance festival.

The artworks feature the human body, its movements, its gestures, their meanings and interpretations, through a wide range of approaches: conceptual, sensory, political, social, activist, playful, provocative, historical, and through questions of gender and identity. They refer to the history of choreography, to types of dance, to technologies, to architecture and urban context, to clothing or to scenography.

The title Dance first. Think later is inspired by a line from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which became a slogan, pasted onto t-shirts or mugs and even used as the title for a book of rules to live by. The contrast between this mainstream usage and its original context opens a field for reflection on the relationship between ‘dancing’ and ‘thinking’. Dancing is both a ubiquitous, mass activity – a means of celebrating that everyone has access to – and at the same time, a rigorous, conceptual artistic discipline, a way to define the thinking body. 

Alongside a selection of existing works produced during the last 20 years, the exhibition will present new productions (Cechetti, Hominal, La Ribot, Manchot, Pajand, Stauffer), site specific installations (Gerard & Kelly, Mosset & Kassay), as well as new versions of works (Gerard & Kelly, Leguillon, Le Roy, Pirici, Senatore).

An accompanying publication, available early 2021, will bring together essays and new texts on each artist, richly illustrated with images taken over the course of the exhibition.

Curator: Olivier Kaeser, director of ARTA SPERTO

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