June 10-12, 2021

"Towards a Decentered History of Dance"

Lyon Dance Biennale / CNSMD de Lyon / ENS de Lyon
In partnership with the Centre National de la Danse

How is history moved, reconfigured, stimulated, by current research on dance? In connection with the Lyon Dance Biennale and the publication of A New History of Dance in the West (Ed. Seuil, Sept. 2020), this international conference in Lyon, France, aims to extend questions addressed by scholars’ contributions to the book, as well as generate entirely new dialogues via various acts of “decentering” dance historical scholarship. The polysemic notion of decentering is here understood as an invitation to reevaluate theoretical models, methods, approaches and historiographies of dance.

Header image: Nikolais Dance Theatre in Tensile Involvement, 1986 © Jean-Marie Gourreau / Centre National de la Danse