Dance and/in the Museum

Why situate a dance in a museum? What happens to spectators, dancers and exhibitions when the choreography takes place in a space traditionally reserved for historical and visual art objects? The lecture by the theorist and curator Marisa Hayes Dance and/in the Museum tells the audience about the growing number of choreographic projects created for museums and galleries in an effort to explore how time, movement and audience differ as we engage with the museum.

Marisa Hayes is a French–American theorist, translator and curator specialising in the relationship between dance and visual arts. She studied dance and media art at the Sorbonne and Goddard College. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the dance research magazine Repères, cahier de danse at La Briqueterie – National Centre for the Development of Choreography in France. She is also the founding co-director of the Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, an annual dance film platform. She lecturers internationally in the history and theory of dance and screening at universities, and for a range of public organisations. Her publications include articles for Dance Magazine, Dance International, The International Journal of Screendance, a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (ed. Douglas Rosenberg) and Art in Motion: Current Research in Screendance, which she co-edited. Marisa published her monograph in 2016 – a study of the connections between traditional Japanese dance theatre and the buto in the Takeshi Shimizu film Ju-on. She was visiting lecturer curator at the Theatre Freiburg in Germany, la Maison de la danse in Lyon, France; and served as Cultural Ambassador in Hong Kong for the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Made possible with the kind support by: La Briqueterie – Centre de développement chorégraphique national du Val-de-Marne