Université des arts de Philadelphie

Pour la 5ème fois depuis 2018, ICI—CCN accueille en relation avec le master exerce la Summer School du Master en danse de l’Université des Arts de Philadelphie (MFA in Dance). Ce programme réunira une communauté de 50 étudiant·e·s-artistes et enseignant·e·s du 19 juin au 31 juillet 2023.
→ Plus d’infos sur la formation : https://www.uarts.edu/academics/graduate/dance-mfa

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For the fifth time since 2018, ICI—CCN is hosting the Summer School of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (UArts - MFA in Dance) in cooperation with the master's exerce programme. This program will bring together a community of 50 student-artists and teachers from 19 June to 31 July 2023.
→ More info on the degree course: https://www.uarts.edu/academics/graduate/dance-mfa

Un changement de paradigme serait en cours, selon Paul B. Preciado, vers une épistémologie non binaire. Dans cette épistémologie à venir, les oppositions qui structurent les différences de valeurs de nos sociétés post-industrielles – corps vs esprit, masculin vs féminin, productif vs improductif, handicapé vs valide, etc. – sont mises au défi par des mouvements globalisés de résistance. Corps trans, corps subalternes, corps migrants...

Quelles sont les expériences des corps en transition? Comment se redéfinissent les âges, les genres, les expressions des sexualités ? Quelles sont leurs pratiques d’entraînement, et de dés-entraînement ?

Durant cette semaine de symposium, il s’agira d’explorer comment nos pratiques de danse et d’art, nos actions militantes ou nos recherches participent à certains aspects de ce changement de paradigme, ou au contraire lui résistent.

/ Thomas F. DeFrantz & Isabelle Ginot


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Critical Bodies: borders|ACCESS|care

A shift in paradigm is currently in process, according to Paul B. Preciado, towards a non-binary epistemology. An epistemology where oppositions that structure hierarchies of values in post-industrial societies – body vs. mind, masculine vs feminine, productive vs unproductive, abled vs disabled - are challenged by global movements of resistance. Trans-bodies, subaltern bodies, migrant bodies …

What are body experiences of being in transition? Re-alignments in age, gender, expressions of sexuality? What are practices of training and un-training?

Geopolitical borders are crucial in our world, and stand as strict material and political limits that many bodies transgress for survival. Other borders, although less material, shape our lives and actions. Aesthetic borders and formations of art. Social differences. City neighborhoods. Academic disciplines. Conceptual categories. A nagging sense of belonging or not being part of... Feeling conformity or feeling strange. Our moves continuously shape and extend the limits of borders, shaping and un-shaping them, twisting their lines, blurring form.

Access, Care; Learning, Study. What do we need to access shared spaces of learning and un-knowing? Crafting common spaces through discourse and listening, moving and un-moving. Orienting towards difference; a discourse of criticality and care. Political renderings of need and desire made manifest through interaction and change. How do we constitute a commons that cares towards our variety?

During this symposium, we will explore what practices of dance and art, activist actions or researches are supporting, embodying, or resisting aspects of this paradigm.

Thomas F. DeFrantz & Isabel Ginot