Dance First Think Later – The Thinking Body between Dance and Visual Arts

Dance First Think Later - The Thinking Body between Dance and Visual Arts builds on the 2020 Geneva exhibition-festival of the same name, documenting the event with rich visuals and adding critical, theoretical, and historical perspectives on the featured works. Commissioned essays on the 22 participating artists were contributed by experts from museums, festivals, art schools, and independent critics. This biennial event explores the intersections between dance, performance, visual arts, and moving images. Organized and produced by Arta Sperto, the exhibition-festival and accompanying book emphasize a cross-disciplinary approach that merges the practices of visual and performing arts, as well as the roles of museums, art centers, theatres, and festivals. This method responds to the challenge of supporting artists whose hybrid practices defy the traditional divisions within cultural institutions, funding, and media. The book offers insights into contemporary cross-disciplinary practices, featuring contributions from artists such as Halil Altindere, Alexandra Bachzetsis & Julia Born, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, La Ribot, Xavier Le Roy, Klara Lidén, and others.