Dance First Think Later

The publication Dance First Think Later – The thinking body between dance and the arts visuals follows the exhibition-festival Dance First Think Later – Meeting between dance and visual arts, presented in Geneva in summer 2020, documenting it by a rich iconography, and by enriching it with a perspective critical, theoretical and historical of the works and the project. Unpublished texts are dedicated to the 22 artists, written by authors active in museums, festivals, art schools, independent critics or artists. The biennial event Dance First Think Later explores the terrain convergent between dance, performance, visual arts and moving images. Arta Sperto, who organizes and produces the exhibition-festival and publishes the book, develops a transdisciplinary orientation which mixes the mechanisms of functioning of the visual arts and the performing arts, and beyond that, the respective characteristics of museums/art centers and theaters/festivals. This orientation is motivated by the support of artists whose practices cross-sections collide with the functioning of culture which is still mainly organized by domain, whether at the policy level cultural, institutions, funding or media. Starting from the works, the book offers many avenues for reflection on approaches transversal of contemporary arts. With / around Halil Altindere, Alexandra Bachzetsis & Julia Born, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Alex Cecchetti, Clément Cogitore, Dara Friedman, Gerard & Kelly, Marie-Caroline Hominal, Lenio Kaklea, La Ribot, Pierre Leguillon, Xavier Le Roy, Klara Lidén, Melanie Manchot, Olivier Mosset & Jacob Kassay, Samuel Pajand, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Alexandra Pirici, Julien Prévieux, Marinella Senatore, Gregory Stauffer, Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca.