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Dance (MFA)

Books on the Move, the traveling bookstore dedicated to contemporary dance, performance studies, and somatic practices is developing. The bookstore, founded in Berlin in 2008 migrated in the Fall 2013 to Bordeaux in the south of France.

Agnès Benoit, of Books on the Move, is a teacher, independent choreographer and improviser.
She started dance as a child in Bordeaux, France, with Jean Masse and Jacques Garros. She received both her BA (1991) and her MFA (2000) from Bennington College in the United States. Agnès taught at the University of Rochester, NY, in the Program of Dance and Movement from 2000-2006.

She has shown her own work as well as collaborated with other choreographers and dancers in several venues and countries including the USA, France, and Belgium. Her work has been influenced by her teachers at Bennington College, Martha Wittman, Susan Sgorbati, Terry Creach, Peggy Florin, Daniel Michaelson and Dana Reitz as well as other performers and teachers she met during various workshops: Mark Tompkins, Julyen Hamilton, David Zambrano and Simone Forti to name a few.

Her publications include On the Edge/Créateurs de l'Imprévu (Nouvelles de Danse 32/33, Contredanse, 1997), as well as translations from English into French, such as Handbook in Motion (Simone Forti) and entries in the Dictionnaire de la Danse (Larousse, 1999 & 2008).