The exhibition is devoted to the relationship between dance and drawing, looking at the graphic practices of dancers and choreographers: from rehearsal notebooks to large-format scores, from ballet masters' drawings to personal experiments in notation, the exhibition questions the way in which drawing can be an integral part of choreographic practice, in a process of creation, transmission to dancers, dissemination and even preservation. All types of dance are taken into account, whether professional or amateur: ballet, contemporary dance, social dance, regional dance... all over a long period of time, from the century of Louis XIV to the present day. The project stems from a research program conducted at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, using the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre national de la danse: these three prestigious institutions are closely associated with the exhibition project.
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