THINKING GESTURE DANCE - INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINE ROQUET

Abstract

Having trained in movement analysis with Odile Rouquet and then with Hubert Godard in the Dance department of the University Paris 8, Christine Roquet supports in 2002 his doctorate entitled “La scène amoureuse en danse: codes, modes et normes de l’intercorporéité dans le duo chorégraphique” [The love scene in dance: codes, modes and standards of intercorporeality in the choreographic duo]. Since 2003, she is a professor of movement analysis in the same department, where she is also responsible for the bachelor’s degree course Arts du spectacle chorégraphique. In this interview, conducted in January 2017 in Fontenay-sousBois (France), Christine Roquet first explains how the movement analysis – originating from the field of dance – has developed in France and then the discussion gives a main place to the approach of the Dance department of the University Paris 8. The problem of defining a field of study; the kinship between somatic practices, notation of movement and dance classes; the specificity of the theories developed by Michel Bernard and Hubert Godard are themes that run through this conversation between a professor and a student who begins his studies in this area.