Round Table: Danses Migratoires

UQAM’s Dance Department invites you to take part in a lunchtime discussion of dance research on the theme of migratory dance.

Guest speakers: Paulina Vega Marquez (Maîtrise en danse, UQAM), Corinne Skaff (Maitrise en danse,UQAM) and Marion Sage (Phd, Université de Lille)

Human migratory movements, whether desired or undergone, shape the worlds in which we live every day. They weave the complex and fruitful networks of relationships and experiences in which each journey contributes to our ways of living, “[to the] ceaseless and ever-renewed weaving”(1) of the world. These movements of displacement, from one border to another, from one territory to another, affect our shared corporealities, our qualities of presence and attention, our individual and collective narratives, our imaginations, and our commitments.

The “Danses migratoires” round table brings together three movement artist-researchers, Paulina Vega Marquez (Mexico), Corinne Skaff (Lebanon) and Marion Sage (France), who are interested in these migratory movements and their effects on bodies, experiences and creation. From the migratory dances of Latin American immigrant women in Montreal (Paulina), to the concept of Arriving as a situated, intentional and relational practice of dance improvisation (Corinne), to the experience of political exile in the history of German Expressionist dance in France (Marion), this round table will be an opportunity to discuss the lines of travel drawn by migration, and what they do to our life experiences and movement practices.

The round table is organized by professors Johanna Biennaise, Guy Cools and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus.

(1)Tim Ingold, Being Alive. Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, London, Routledge, 2011, p. 71.