Angela Conquet

Project at the MaCI

Responding to a scarcity of both conceptual and practical frameworks in dance curating, an emerging discipline and under-theorised profession, this research proposes concrete curatorial methods and tools developed and tested in direct dialogue with other peers and the professional field. These methods will focus on notions of location, language and legacy as they seek to contribute to a more critical, situated and ethical field of practice and of research.

The purpose of this investigation is double: 
1) to contribute to scholarly discourse and further establish this nascent discipline as a distinct field of
knowledge and, 2) to offer practical curating methodologies to the professional field.

The findings of this research will be made accessible to the larger community via an online open-source repository and a bilingual handbook. It is expected that the outcomes of this research will significantly contribute to the growth, maturation and social accountability of this discipline and profession.

The project leverages on collaborative methodologies involving other peers and underpinned by the participants’ decolonial, Indigenous and diasporic perspectives. The research also mobilises the prestigious Lyon Dance Biennale as an international/regional partner together with multiple UGA and Grenoble-based partners. Equally, it includes a three-day think-tank on dance curation held at MaCI and a series of keynotes/panel conversations on ‘SCORING’ as a practice of the everyday.

The project is developed in collaboration with Séverine Ruset, Associate Professor in Performing Arts (Litt&Arts), whose research focuses on the interactions between artistic creation, organizational practices, and modes of production in contemporary theatre in France and England.