You are the dancer
Geisha Fontaine, Tu es le danseur, éditions micadanses, 2008.
Foreword (Christophe Martin)
With this collection of texts, Geisha Fontaine offers us a sensitive and intellectual approach to dance. The theoretician does not abdicate before the writer. And the sensitive is glad to wander alongside a thoughtful vision of dance. A humanist discourse? A willingness in any case to combine what characterises her: the practitioner choreographer and dancer, and the active, publishing intellectual. You know that sought-after harmony but which is so frightening: a thinking body / a thought in the body.
Within the micadanses project, is expressed this idea of a powerful, complete, energetic and smiling culture that does not shy away from trials, successes and, sometimes, delays, a culture that embraces both knowledge of the body and intellectual knowledge. The writer-in-residence embodies this objective (as do the reflection days).
Geisha Fontaine, in a kind of Rêveries du danseur solitaire (Reveries of the solitary dancer), reflects on dance, on those who live it, who make it, in a tender but precise languor. It is also a discourse in love.