A Conversation about Dance History
In cooperation with the Conservatoire de Rennes
Every history chooses what it puts at the centre, leaving in the shadows what it cannot name. Textbooks, programmes and official accounts of dance have their heroes, their dates, their recognised lineages — and their absences, rarely questioned as such.
Self-taught dances and those from the peripheries interrogate this construction from within. What do the familiar narratives of dance actually say? Which trajectories, which places, which communities find their place there — and which are excluded, not by accident but through a logic of hierarchy that presents itself as neutral?
This conversation brings together artists, researchers and teachers to revisit these questions at their root. How do you write a history of dance that includes what has been passed on outside institutions? What happens to history when you change who tells it?
An open conversation, hosted by Céline Roux, to think together about what has been left unsaid — and what becomes possible to say with several voices.