This work is simultaneously a performative lecture , a final graduation project, and a dance research practice. It tests an invented methodology. A way of researching that was discovered while practicing how to research dance without separating theory and practice, without the former representing the latter and vice versa. Without distancing theory and practice, but bringing them together through gestures in which the two intersect. In this performance piece, I describe my time at the university, my concerns, my difficulties, and how I developed my research method through "dance experiments," allowing new poetics to emerge in the moment of presentation. 

“While, for our part, we prefer to remain within the intimacy of the gesture, of the genesis of the work's components. There where it is elaborated and constructed, where it is exposed and risks are taken. But also where it moves us and sometimes where it sweeps us away. Even at the risk of hoping, at the end of these journeys through the new states of bodies, for the emergence of a new poetics, of which we would be nothing more than humble heralds”. Laurence Louppe, Poetics of Contemporary Dance, (2011, p. 42)

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