Ligeia Issue Explores Dance and Photography

The journal Ligeia dedicates a special issue to the intersection of dance and photography. Michel Guérin contributes an article on forgetting, memory, and 'transparution,' drawing on Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and coordinator Michelle Debat. Choreographers provide firsthand accounts: Odile Duboc discusses her 1989 concept of the 'choreographic snapshot' and its relation to her piece Vol d'oiseaux (1981). Mathilde Monnier, in an interview, reflects on her collaboration with Isabelle Waternaux and expresses interest in working with Jeff Wall. Patricia Brignone explains the importance of photographic archives for Boris Charmatz, whose project 50 ans de danse was inspired by a book on Merce Cunningham. The issue's 'Actualités et débats' section features photographs of Romanian dancer Lizica Codreano performing Erik Satie's Gymnopédies in Brancusi's studio in 1922. Doïna Lemny writes about Codreano, Isadora Duncan, and Loïe Fuller, who pioneered the use of photographic recordings of her dances.