CritiQueer la danse
Creators: Pauline Le Boulba
How can we account for and share the relationships we may have with works and/or artists we've never met? Is a danced critique possible? What might the critical practices of a lesbian and feminist performer~writer look like? This book attempts to answer these questions by following the research-creation of Pauline L. Boulba, dance researcher and choreographic artist. It focuses on three works: Rita Quaglia's "Une hypothèse de réinterprétation" (2009), Olga de Soto's "histoire(s)" (2004), and Kazuo Ôno's "Admiring la Argentina" (1977), from which it draws tools for thinking about dance reception as a creative space. He then traces the trajectory of Jill Johnston, the radical lesbian dance critic and performer of the 1960s in the United States, for whom critical practices were sites of self-invention. Interspersed with excerpts from a diary, critical fragments and performance materials, this book outlines an original, singular research project, shot through with affect. "CritiQueer la danse" is an account of an attempt to replace hegemonic art-critical practices with queer and feminist perspectives.