Dancing with a page in hand

This retrospective of the work of American choreographer Lucinda Childs explores the practices and methods that shaped the development of postmodern dance at the intersection of pop art and minimal art. The exhibition examines the porosity of these movements, which have been canonised by art history, while highlighting the central role of bodily experience in the transformation of the arts in the 1960s and 1970s.

An iconic choreographer of postmodern dance, Lucinda Childs transforms space into a playground of perfectly mastered lines, circles and trajectories. Refined, it is a poetry of gesture that unfolds, repeats, takes shape and is conceived to choreograph movement in space.

Through archival documents donated by the choreographer to the Centre National de la Danse in 2016, as well as videos, drawings and photos, this is a rare opportunity to discover an innovative approach to dance.

Featuring: Trisha Brown, James Lee Byars, Lucinda Childs, Ruth Childs, Philip Corner, Judith Dunn, David Gordon, Babette Mangolte, Marie Menken, Steve Paxton, Nathaniel Tileston and Andy Warhol.