Entries from May 2008

May 4, 2008

Interview with Jérôme Bel and Daniel Buren

This year’s Vidéodanse program at the Centre Pompidou contains a great interview with choreographer Jérôme Bel and visual/installation artist Daniel Buren. I have translated it here for those interested in reading it. Interview conducted by Jean-Max Colard in Paris, Feb. 2008. Everything Depends on its Context A meeting between two prestigious regulars of the Pompidou [...]

May 1, 2008

Vidéodanse 2008

Since 2000, the Pompidou Center has hosted these 2 to 3-week-long screenings of dance videos, open to the public at no cost. The Vidéodanse trend is to show a marathon of dance videos, although they aren’t so much dance videos as they are video recordings of the proscenium stage. I was hoping for more “dances [...]