Emma Bigé teaches, translates, writes and improvises with experimental contemporary dances and queer & trans*feminists.

 

Former student of the École Normale Supérieure, associate professor and doctor of philosophy (Sharing the movement. A philosophy of gestures with Contact Improvisation, Paris: ENS, 2017), exhibition curator and dancer, she develops installations and texts aiming to rename the know-how to feel and the know-how to think that come from performance and improvised dances. She notably directed the traveling exhibitionContact Improvisation Gestures(Rennes, Musée de la danse, 2018) and a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Steve Paxton (Lisbon, Culturgest, 2019). She is co-editor of books on improvisation in dance (Steve Paxton: Drafting Interior Techniques; The perspective of the apple. Histories, Policies and Practices of Contact Improvisation), and member of the journal Multitudes.

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She recently publishedMovements, Ecopolitics of dance, Paris: Editions de la Découverte, 2023.

 

She worked and taught with the Portuguese artist Joao Fiadeiro, and published an interview with him in Joaõ Fiadeiro,Composition in Tempo Real: Anatomy of a Decisão, Lisbon, Ghost Editions, 2017. On the websiteFor an atlas of figures, she published two articles that feed the concepts of this project:Note on the concept of gesture, 2018 andNap-ins. Nap Policies, (2020).

 

She is also co-translator, with Mathilde Papin, of the work of Canadian philosopher Erin Manning. She brings to this project the knowledge that she co-elaborates with others in the fields of study.queer, trans*feminists and ecosomatics.