Kitsou Dubois

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Kitsou Dubois (born November 5, 1954 in France ) is a French choreographer and teacher .

Life

Dubois completed a degree in economics and dance, both of which she completed with a master's degree. She received her doctorate in 1999 at the University of Paris VIII with the dissertation topic “Dance technique applied to weightless flights; a dancer in weightlessness ”.

Dubois has been working since 1990 in search of the poetic visual representation of the relationship between humans and weightlessness . Her research led continuously to studies of space travel in terms of gestures, orientation processes and perceptions. She processed her experiences that she had gained between 1990 and 1994 through nine parabolic flights at the French space agency CNES and in 2009 during a parabolic flight in the Russian star city .

In 1995 she was involved in the film Kitsou Dubois, une danseuse en apesanteur by Jérôme de Missölz . In 1999 Dubois took up an arts and science residence in London . In the Lux Gallery she presented the video Gravité zéro . A year later, she proposed the video installation Altered States of Gravity for the Creating Sparks Festival. Until 2002 she completed the artist residency at Imperial College London . In addition, Dubois took part in several art and science conferences in Europe . The creation of Trajectoire fluide resulted in a video installation that was shown at the La Rochelle International Film Festival .

Fonts

  • Application des techniques de la danse à l'entraînement du vol en apesanteur. Une danseuse en apesanteur. Dissertation. University of Paris 1999.
  • In weightlessness. When flying and dancing become the same. In: Ballett international, Tanz aktuell. Volume 3, 2000, pp. 44-45.
  • The sensual flight - choreography and weightlessness. In: Life in weightless space. Edited by the Museum for Design Zurich, Zurich 2001.

literature

  • Annick Bureaud: Kitsou Dubois and the Weightless Body. In: IEEE MultiMedia. Vol. 16, no. 1, 2009, pp. 4-7. ( Abstract )
  • Nicola Triscott, Rob La Frenais: Zero Gravity: A Cultural User's Guide. Ed. Arts Catalyst. London 2005, ISBN 0953454649 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Personal details of Dubois Kitsou on Spacearts.info, accessed on December 5, 2009
  2. ↑ Space Art for the International Space Station ISS ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ARTE.tv , accessed December 5, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
personal data
SURNAME Dubois, Kitsou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French choreographer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH France