Danse, la cité. Infiltration chorégraphique d’une place publique

Abstract

Danse, la cité is an artistic urban act which aims to highlight the relationship between the inhabitants of a neighbourhood and a public area. They are invited to look at their environment, feel it with experimental gestures, in order to move in this place thanks to a site-specific dance performance. The process used with the inhabitants comes from sensory observation, previously undertaken by the whole team, which takes the choreographic characteristics as a way to identify the side effects of an area on the body. This project opens a path to reading and understanding the urban space through the sensing body.

Keywords

• Site specific dance performance
• body
• sensitive knowledge
• urban space
• public area
• experimentation