Composition/Teaching/Learning Processes in Dance

This article is about contemporary dance solo productions which have been called choreographic installations. It is focused on the relations between humans and non-humans in performance and presents an approach of teaching/learning in dance. It departs from the idea that the choreographic installation responds to a search for experience, which is operated by means of relations to non-humans when these become coauthors of bodies, dance and performance. The solo notion is thus called into question, as we are never alone in it, but rather with, which leads us to emphasize dance composition and learning as a collective experimentation. This article is about contemporary dance solo productions which have been called choreographic installations. It is focused on the relations between humans and non-humans in performance and presents an approach of teaching/learning in dance. It departs from the idea that the choreographic installation responds to a search for experience, which is operated by means of relations to non-humans when these become coauthors of bodies, dance and performance. The solo notion is thus called into question, as we are never alone in it, but rather with, which leads us to emphasize dance composition and learning as a collective experimentation. This article is about contemporary dance solo productions which have been called choreographic installations. It is focused on the relations between humans and non-humans in performance and presents an approach of teaching/learning in dance. It departs from the idea that the choreographic installation responds to a search for experience, which is operated by means of relations to non-humans when these become coauthors of bodies, dance and performance. The solo notion is thus called into question, as we are never alone in it, but rather with, which leads us to emphasize dance composition and learning as a collective experimentation.