FORUM

FORUM is the Biennale de la danse de Lyon new, experimental, discursive public program, aiming to pioneer, stimulate and nourish alternative spaces for dialogue and exchange of new corporeal knowledges that shape dance ecosystems beyond the European borders. Devised through a collaborative curatorial process bringing together artists and curators from five regions of the world, FORUM reflects the ambition of the Biennale to lead and innovate new discursive avenues of and for choreographic thought, thus enabling an understanding of the world with, from, and through dance. Each curator has been invited to choose an artist/a collective from their respective geographical region whose work and commitment are strongly connected to and reflective of the local environment.

The FORUM artists, together with their curators, invite you to discover orientations of practice and of imagination that mobilise senses and sense-abilities offering concrete pathways into active forms of presence, of listening, rooted in deeply ancestral and somatic knowledges. Taken together, they represent specific ecosomatics for resisting and for responding to the current societal crises we are experiencing. They are invitations as much as they are provocations to think and feel the world through a shared embodied with-ness. Through these artists’ offerings – performances, participatory experiences, dialogues and exchanges - you are being hosted within new ecologies of relations welcoming you to recalibrate perception, attention, and intention.

Curators x Forum artists

Australia : Angela Conquet x Marrugeku
Brazil : Nayse Lopez x Original Bomber Crew
Mozambique : Quito Tembe x Idio Chichava
Taiwan : River Lin x Fangas Nayaw
United States : Angela Mattox x devynn emory

Coordination Angela Conquet