Panel Statement

Panel: Body Narratives

In September 1991, for the first time ever, the choreographer and dancer performed a parabolical flight in weightlessness above French soil. Since then, she has pursued her research at the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales in an attempt to develop a training program using dance techniques adapted for astronauts. Other flights during which the artist invited dancers and non-dancers have followed. The object of this film is to show her goals: take art, dance in particular, into the realm of technology and give it back its essential, albeit unexpected role.

• Kitsou Dubois, (Paris, France). Choreographer and researcher at the French National Space Studies Centre (CNES), she is working on orientation and gestural behaviour in weightless-ness.

Full text (in french) p.74-76