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Betty Lefevre

Betty Lefèvre is a Professor Hemeritus of the University of Rouen in Anthropology of Embodied Practices. Her research and writings focus on the moving body (artistic or athletic) as an embodied space of social imaginary and re-creation of individual and collective identities. Some of her most recent papers are: Male Bodies, Female Bodies – On the use of nudity in contemporary dance – a study of Olivier Dubois’ Tragedy (Cultures Corporelles, PURH, University of Rouen); Body at play and sensitive experience, University of Oxford, « Consumer Culture Theory » Seminar, 2012.
feature article in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Betty Lefevre

Contemporary Dance and its Rituals: The Example of a work by Alain Platel

The contemporary dance performance belongs to a “romantic” sociality and to the “useless” activities that allow for sensed experience, a lived emotion, an imaginary, a meditation. Read more...
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