Biography
Emma Bigé studies, writes, translates, curates, and improvises between the fields of dance, transfeminist and environmental studies. She used her PhD in philosophy as an excuse to curate two dance exhibitions on the histories of Contact Improvisation (Musée de la danse, Rennes, 2018) and on the life & works of dance improviser Steve Paxton (Culturgest, Lisboa, 2019). Co-editor of anthologies on improvisation, and author of Mouvementements. Écopolitiques de la danse (La Découverte, 2023), she is currently working with trans* & ecological studies, translating queer theorists and writers (Jack Halberstam, Sara Ahmed, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Eva Hayward…), and preparing two books on ecosex theory and transecofeminism.
Contents
24.10.2024
Notes on trans*grievability
Could we learn to grieve without fetishizing our dead (human or more-than-human)? Could we spend more time with our dead without making them into “steps” in the advancement of other causes?
12.02.2024
Habits de scène, vêtements de vie
Désassigner les pratiques : modes de (dés)emploi
A dialogue with choreographer and performer François Chaignaud, led by philosopher and choreographer Emma Bigé and art historian Magali Le Mens, co-organized by HEAD – Geneva and the Centre Maurice Chalumeau en…