23 Jan 2019
20 May 2019

ON DANSE ?

MUCEM - MARSEILLE

Shall we dance? 

Yes, we dance. We may not necessarily be Nijinski, Beyoncé or Fred Astaire. It does not matter, sooner or later, one dances: at a party, a ceremony, a concert or alone in one’s living room.

 

Dance is not just for virtuosos; it is a shared and shareable act, both physical and political, and one that totally transcends bodies, territories and societies. Whether one dances alone or in a group, to seduce or enlist, to stand out or to melt into a crowd, dance is a social activity, a vector of connections made up of relations to self and others, to one’s own body and the collective corpus, towards a beyond and sometimes elsewhere. 

 

In a scenography that invites movement, the visitor is free to come and go, have a stretch, lie down, or lean back, in a discovery of  lms, soundtracks and extracts of texts. These works are organised in a six-hour audiovisual  ow that each visitor is invited to pick up from the moment they enter, for periods lasting a few minutes to a few hours, as they uncover one work after the next, in a singular relationship with space and time. 

 

Each may thus move from one screen to the next, experiencing and choosing their own way to watch and listen, set to the volumes, bends and materials of the exhibition space... 

 

Shall we dance?

General information

MUCEM
Esplanade J4
7 promenade Robert Laffont 
13002 Marseille

+33 (0)4 84 35 13 13
http://www.mucem.org/

DIRECTION

Head Curator :

Emilie Girard, Head curator for Heritage and head of the collections department and documentary resources of the Mucem

Associate Curator :

Amélie Couillaud, independent curator

Scenography :

Cécile Degos

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