This meeting is the first public event to present the Performance Sources project, a research program dedicated to Le Générateur’s archive holdings. It is conceived around Parades and Changes, a piece created in 1965 by Anna Halprin that was revived in 2006 for the center’s inauguration. At the crossroads of dance and performance, Parades and Changes is a landmark work in the history of contemporary dance. The Générateur’s archives contain various documents attesting to its rich trajectory: score, indications for the revival, photographs, videos… Through the prism of this work, the meeting will provide an overview of the documentary holdings at the Générateur, while exploring a founding moment in the history of the venue. More generally, the circumstances surrounding the transmission and reconstruction of Parades and Changes at Le Générateur, as well as the various documents present in the archives, provide valuable elements for questioning the traceability and memory of performative works.
The meeting will bring together Ivola Demange, dancer and choreographer, responsible for the re-creation of Parades and Changes at Le Générateur, Anne Dreyfus, director of Le Générateur, Johanna Renard, contemporary art and dance historian and Clélia Barbut, contemporary art historian and associate researcher at Le Générateur for Performance Sources.
Parades and Changes © Bernard Bousquet