Isabelle Launay

Isabelle Launay has been a professor since 1996 in Dance Studies at Paris 8 University’s Dance Department and a member of the MUSIDANSE Laboratory. She has also taught at the National Center Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France, and within the Master Exercise in Montpellier, France. Launay has collaborated on many artists’ projects, notably, those of Cécile Proust, Boris Charmatz, Les Carnets Bagouet, Mathilde Monnier, Loic Touzé, Latifa Laâbissi and Bintou Dembélé. An author of several works in aesthetics and history, her latest works focus on the memory of works in dance (Poetics and policies of repertoires, Dances after 1 and Cultures of oblivion and quotation, Dances after 2, CND, 2017 and 2018). With Silvia Soter, Launay recently published La passion des possibles, 30 ans de compagnie (L’Attribut, 2021), about the trajectory of the Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues. She is currently working on issues of post-memory and agency in dance from a transnational and decolonial perspective in the global south.

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