One art always more or less questions the whole range of contemporary arts. It is very often by comparing it with another mean of expression that a given medium can be more subtly understood; it can be approached by detecting differences or similarities, by observing frictions, junctions and actual collaborations. Michelle Debat has undertaken this kind of comparative approach in L'impossible image. Photographie-danse-choregraphie, confronting the photographic image with dance and creating a dialogue between them. Debat does not endeavour to characterise the best way of taking pictures of dancers, study the best manner of introducing projected pictures within choreographic shows, nor bring out mutual contaminations (even if some influences happen to be mentioned, particularly the noticeable contribution of chronophotography to the beginnings of modern dance.) Her discussion does not follow a chronological arrangement, or a particular methodical organisation. Instead the meeting-points between photography and dance are encountered in successive touches, according to ever-changing angles, through a complex structure that by degrees persuades the reader that the two mediums are closely related.
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