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- Title
Word and Gesture: Marie Nimier's Vous dansez? as Hybrid Text.
- Authors
Gascoigne, David
- Abstract
A novelist with a long-standing involvement in the performing arts, Marie Nimier published in 2005 Vous dansez?, a collection of nine short fictional texts written as part of a collaborative venture with the dancer-choreographer Dominique Boivin to form the basis for a series of performance pieces. The intensity and sustained interaction between writer and dancers which informed these writings confers on them a particular transgeneric status, termed here 'choré-récits' [choreo-narratives], as texts originally for dance performance and now for reading. The accounts emerging from interviews with the dancers about the factors shaping their career and their art frequently laid bare the constraints, both personal and professional, which through dance they sought to express or transcend, a feature which resonates with Nimier's own abiding exploration of social, familial and interpersonal politics. More fundamentally, the hybrid focus of the collection nourishes a sustained and suggestive reflection on the relationship between verbal and gestural language and art.
- Subjects
VOUS dansez? (Book); NIMIER, Marie; BOIVIN, Dominique; FRENCH short stories; GESTURE in literature; DANCERS in literature; DANCE; FICTION
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2019, Vol 55, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Short Story Review
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/cqz021