Documentation Centre
To go further on Trisha Brown
Biography : https://trishabrowncompany.org/trisha-brown/biography Trisha Brown’s obit in the New York Times (March 20, 2017): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/arts/dance/trisha-brown-dead-modern-dance-choreographer.html Here is an extract from the various resources available at the Contredanse Documentation Centre about Trisha Brown: Trisha Brown’s history: Sally Banes, Terpsichore in Sneakers. Post-modern dance, ed. Houghton Mifflin,1980. Et sa traduction française par Denise Luccioni, Chiron, 2002. Sally Banes et […]
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Open-air exhibition
In the frame of Brussels, dance! 40 dance photos are exposed to the wind, suspended in the streets of Brussels, Saint-Gilles, Ixelles, Schaerbeek and Molenbeek. Created in collaboration with Lise Bruyneel (La fabrique des regards), the images are taken from the iconographic collection of the Documentation Centre of Contredanse, which includes nearly 5000 photographs covering […]
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Opening hours of the documentation center
The Documentation Center team welcomes you on Mondays and Thursdays from 13:00 to 16:30 and Tuesdays from 10:00 to 16:30. See you soon!
The documentation centre
The Contredanse dance documentation centre was established in 1989 to spread the word about the history of dance, support learning and research, create a repository and challenge the archiving and transmission of dance.
Its document collection has grown over time, especially with respect to Contredanse’s key themes: improvisation, composition, transmission, somatic practices and the history of contemporary dance.
It also showcases the dance heritage of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
About the documentation centre
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Hours & contact
The documentation centre is closed during the summer and will reopen to the public on September 5 at the usual hours. If you have any questions about your research, please write to centrededoc@contredanse.org. -
Document collection
The documentation centre brings together a wide range of documents related to dance: books, specialized magazines, press clippings, photos, audiovisual archives, conference papers, theses and other original works, etc.
The catalog can be consulted online and you will find all the tips you need to conduct your first research in the article : Traveling within our catalog… -
Access to the documents
All our documents remain onsite (they cannot be borrowed); there is a copy machine available. -
Who does What?
Co-responsible for the documentation centre: Claire Destrée & Yota Dafniotou.