Publication

BAnQ’s Dance Archive Guide

Published
February 17, 2016
Production
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

(in French) This guide, published by BAnQ, sets out a classification system and conservation schedule adapted to dance organizations.

 

 

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Paul-André Fortier’s Bras de plomb featured in the MAGDANCE 5 art + dance + archive, a Mackenzie Art Gallery initiative

For more information visit the French version of this article: https://espaceperreault.ca/fr/collection/bras-de-plomb-de-paul-andre-fortier-active-dans-linitiative-magdance-5-art-dance-archive-de-la-mackenzie-art-gallery/

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Bouncing off the archive #3

Archive #3 presents a mysterious video in which Hanna Sybille Müller again dances with Lauren Semeschuk and Nate Yaffe. The video captures seeing the other dancing and being seen dancing, to transform gestures made in the pared-down space of the gallery, filled only with chairs….

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Bouncing off the archive #1

In the second part, Hanna Sybille Müller shares her dis/embodied archive findings with two dancers, Nate Yaffe and Lauren Semeschuk, with whom she developed a trio. When the residency and project were postponed due to the pandemic, a week of rehearsals still took place in…

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The archive of gestures

Hanna Sybille Müller collected gestures that were performed by the gallery’s staff when an exhibition was being prepared, inaugurated or discussed, and she composed them in a score. Working with each staff member, she discussed how their gestures should be performed. The choreography is an…