Dance First, Think Later: 618 Rules to Live By

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Dance first, think later. That’s the way to success. Your moves will only make you stronger. You don’t need to be a dancer to dance with joy.

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Dance first, think later. Live in the moment, and don’t be too hard on yourself. Dance doesn’t just happen, it’s being intentional, and you have to be in the moment. Dance first and think later. You will have more fun and have more energy when you dance! When you dance, you have to be free. When you think, you have to be true. When you are, then you are dancing. Influenced by minimalist dance, institutional critique and queer theory, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly’s practice (US, Brennan Gerard, 1978; Ryan Kelly, 1979, based in Paris) sits at the boundary of dance and contemporary art, while incorporating writing, video and sculpture.

Lenio Kaklea (GR, 1985, based in Paris) trained as a dancer in Athens and Angers, also undertaking the “master d’expérimentation en arts et politique (SPEAP)” directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po, Paris. As a performer, she has worked with Alexandra Bachzetsis, Gerard & Kelly, François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea, Emmanuelle Huynh and Boris Charmatz among others. She has been making choreographic work since 2009, presenting at Centre Pompidou, LafayetteAnticipations, Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, ImpulsTanz, Vienne, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Quartz, Brest, Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, far – festival des arts vivants, Nyon, and exhibited at the Centre d’art La Passerelle, Brest. In 2019, she received the Dance Prize of the Hermès Foundation and the Triennal of Milan. A Hand’s Turn was acquired by KADIST foundation in 2020.

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In 1967, the artist Richard Serra wrote a list of verbs denoting ways of acting on a material object. Roll, fold, bend, shorten, plane, tear, carve, split, cut, slice… Given Serra’s proximity to Yvonne Rainer and SImone Forti, these words can be read in terms of his interest in dance. With Verbmemove, Gregory Stauffer (CH, 1980, based in Bienne and Genève) pays homage to Serra by “performing” each of the 108 verbs in the list. On the night of 11 December 2018, while my partner was lying on top of me and turning around on the axis of our sexual organs, the image of L’horloge de l’amour came to me. The image persisted to such a point that I felt it necessary to give it material form. On 20 June 2019, we carried out a 12-hour filmed performance behind closed doors, on a mattress of 2.32m in diameter, which served as the basis for L’horloge de l’amour.”

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Dance first, think later. You might not have time to think about what you are doing when you are dancing, but during a concert or party, it is important to smile and dance and laugh and enjoy so your face is ready for a photograph at the end. Xavier Roy’s practice interrogates the relationship between performers and audiences, aiming to transform or reconfigure dichotomies of object and subject, animal and human, machine and human, nature and culture, public and private, formal and informal. Part of Le Roy’s research takes the form of works created specifically for gallery settings: production (2010-2911) developed with Marten Spangberg as part of the exhibition MOVE: Choreographing You; Rétrospective, produced for the Fondation Antoni Tapiès in Barcelona (2012); Untitled (2012) for the exhibition 12 Rooms, Titre Provisoire, 2015 created in Sydney for the John Kaldor Public Art Project, and For The Unfaithful Replica in collaboration with Scarlet Yu at CA2M in Madrid, 2016. A movement is not only a physical endeavour; it endeavours a creative one. Nothing can happen unless someone dances first and then think about it later. The artworks feature the human body, its movements, its gestures, their meanings and interpretations, through a wide range of approaches: conceptual, sensory, political, social, activist, playful, provocative, historical, and through questions of gender and identity. They refer to the history of choreography, to types of dance, to technologies, to architecture and urban context, to clothing or to scenography. Gerard & Kelly have been working together since 2003. Currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, they have presented works – both objects and performances – at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2020); the Festival d’Automne, Paris (2019), Getty Musem, Los Angeles (2019); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); New Museum, New York (2014-2015); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); The Kitchen, New York (2014).