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The Centre Pompidou will present an unprecedented exhibition devoted to the relationship between dance and the visual arts, from 1900 to the present. Covering over 2,000 square metres, the exhibition draws on the Centres tradition of major multidisciplinary shows, a tradition its president Alain Seban has said he wishes to revive. Both original and prolific, the theme will be explored through works by the greatest artistic figures of the 20th century, the contributions of the founding movements of artistic modernism, and the current explorations of important contemporary artists and dancers.
Danser sa vie shows how dance and the visual arts together struck the spark of modernity, inspiring both the major artistic movements and the key figures who made the history of modern and contemporary art.
Conjoining the modern with the contemporary, this exhibition in three acts will show how both art and dance have explored the body in movement. The exhibition Danser sa vie will allow us to discover this hidden aspect of the avant-garde art movements as a constant source of inspiration for contemporary art by establishing a dialogue between all the disciplines, of the choreographic as of the visual arts, from painting to contemporary video. A vast selection of paintings, sculptures, installations, films, videos and dance works will testify to the continual exchanges between them.
The title Danser sa vie [Dancing Ones Life] is taken from Isadora Duncan, the pioneer of modern dance: My Art is just an effort to express the truth of my Being in gesture and movement Before the public which has thronged my representations I have had no hesitation. I have given them the most secret impulses of my soul. From the first I have only danced my life (Isadora Duncan, My Life, New York, 1927).
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Artists: Carl Andre , Charles Atlas , Josephine Baker , Matthew Barney , Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven , Pina Bausch, Max Beckmann , Jerome Bel , Gerhard Bohner, Fred Boissonnas, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle , Constantin Brancusi , Trisha Brown , Alexander Calder , Giannina Censi, Etienne Chambaud , Lucinda Childs / Sol Le Witt, René Clair, Lizica Codreano, Merce Cunningham , Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Sonia Delaunay , Francois Delsarte, Fortunato Depero , André Derain , Theo van Doesburg, Isadora Duncan, Olafur Eliasson , Boris Erdman / Nikolai Foregger, Nicolas Floch , Rachid Ouramdane , Jan Fabre , William Forsythe , Loie Fuller , Valeska Gert , Felix Gonzales-Torres, Martha Graham, Anna Halprin , Raoul Hausmann , Alex Hay , Deborah Hay , Vilmos Huszar, Niddy Impekoven, Jasper Johns , Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Allan Kaprow , Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker, Thierry De Mey, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Yves Klein , Harald Kreutzberg, Frantisek Kupka , Rudolf von Laban, Ange Leccia , Fernand Léger , Rene Le Somptier, Babette Mangolte , Daria Martin Henri Matisse, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Jeff Mills , Simon Dybbroe Moller, Robert Morris , Tomoyoshi Murayama, Eadweard Muybridge , Bruce Nauman , Vaslav Nijinsky, Alwin Nikolais, Kelly Nipper , Isamu Noguchi , Emil Nolde , Hélio Oiticica , Gret Palucca, Valentin Parnac, Steve Paxton , Mai-Thu Perret , Francis Picabia , Pablo Picasso , Hans Namuth , Jackson Pollock , Yvonne Rainer , Robert Rauschenberg , Man Ray , Christian Rizzo , Auguste Rodin , Alexander Rodtschenko , Charlotte Rudolph , Jia Ruskaja, Alexander Sacharoff, Valentine de Saint-Point, Kazuo Shiraga , Lavinia Schulz, Walter Holdt, Oskar Schlemmer , Carolee Schneemann , Kurt Schmidt , Nicolas Schoeffer, Tino Sehgal , Gino Severini , Warwara Stepanowa , Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Andy Warhol , Mary Wigman
