Warm Up Session

Warm Up Session Jean-Biche x Closer Music

Saturday 01 Feb 2020 from 2:30pm to 3:45pm

Sunday 02 Feb 2020 from 1pm to 2:15pm

Free admission upon registration

Closer Music

Exhibition

3 days of Festival
from 31 Jan to 02 Feb 2020
Lafayette Anticipations; Jean-Biche
Warm Up Session avec Jean-Biche © Martin Argyroglo

This Warm Up Session is part of the Closer Music Festival with multi-disciplinary artist Jean-Biche.

Open to all.
Recommended to wear comfortable clothes to move in.
For those who can, please bring high heels.

For this next Session, Jean-Biche proposes a gender-bending warm-up, embodying the subversive strategies of performance art and sharing them with the participants. Movement will be followed by a reflective exchange was we disidentify with normative constructs through a collective corporal act.

Warm Up Sessions : a training for the body and mind. From jumpstyle to ballet, from break dance to contemporary, practice then discuss the indispensable movements and gestures that anticipate a performance - the ultimate moment of sharing with an audience. Each Session will begin with a warm up led by the invited dancer or collective, and will be followed by a discussion on themes bridging body movements and social realities : the performativity of the human condition, circulations and physical disruptions in a decorporalized era. With the Warm Up Sessions, we aspire to associate bodily effort with mindful effervescence.

Curated by Madeleine Planeix-Crocker.
Jean-Biche is a multidisciplinary artist who has grown up in the world of nightlife: first of all as a DJ, before also trying his hand at performance, styling, make-up, graphics, artistic direction...
Now accustomed to unique projects, he has collaborated with Paco Rabanne, Michele Lamy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Brice Dellsperger, Philippe Decouflé & Damien Jalet, as well as Crazy Horse and Manko Cabaret, for which he has been a resident artist during the 4 years of their exploitation.
Madeleine Planeix-Crocker is Curator of Performance and Live Arts at Lafayette Anticipations. Since 2021, she has held the positions of the « Troubles, alliances et esthétiques » co-Chair and professor of art theory at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Madeleine received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University before pursuing a Masters in « Media, Arts and Creation » at HEC Paris and a Master 2 in gender and performance studies at the EHESS. There, she led an arts-based research project with the nonprofit Women Safe, where she continues to facilitate a creative writing and theatre workshop. Madeleine is currently completing her PhD at the EHESS ; her dissertation research examines contemporary methods for devising performance in France.

Her most recent writing can be found in CURA., OnCurating, SwitchOn Paper, and EarthKeepingEarthShaking. She has curated two group shows : Spine at GIANNI MANHATTAN as part of Curated by (Vienna, 2024), as well as Scabs at the Mécènes du Sud (Montpellier, 2023). Madeleine pursues her training in contemporary dance.

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