"50 years of dance (flip book)"

In the scope of the ImPulsTanz research project “Choreographers’ Venture 2009”, exceptional French choreographer Boris Charmatz shows that a dance piece can be based on a book about a choreographer. Together with the participants – ambitious dancing professionals who are either at the beginning of their career or right in the middle of it – Charmatz works with the photos from David Vaughan’s book “Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years” and uses the movements that can be traced from the illustrations. Combining these images, he creates a choreographed “50 years of dance (flip book)”. The dancers proceed chronologically, they jump from picture to picture in order to “transform the whole story of a life’s work, as it is reflected in a book, into a dance piece within a short time”, as Charmatz puts it.

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