Emilie Gallier
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Emilie Gallier is a choreographer researcher who lives in Leiden (The Netherlands). She recently completed her practice-as-research PhD from the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University), in which she develops the idea and practice of reading (documents/documentation) in and as performance (Reading in Performance, Lire en Spectacle) Beside her choreographic practice, Emilie works as a tutor for THIRD: 3rd cycle artistic research programme at DAS Graduate School Amsterdam. She is a guest teacher/mentor at art schools and universities in the Netherlands and abroad (Fontys, Leiden University, PEERS Zurich). She publishes in peer-reviewed journals (a.o. Performance Research), and co-edits dance books (ongoing De Nieuwe Dansbibliotheek, Notebook Series). She is co-founder of Les Minieres in Normandy (France), at the intersection of regenerative agriculture and performing art practices. In 2022, Emilie Gallier joins the Erasmus+ project Extraordinary Dances (Dance and Handicap) with the Leiden-based group Domino. More




2022

Extraordinary Dances, Dance and Handicap
Erasmus+ exchange of practices
Cascina Macondo, Italy
September 20-25

Assemblee Generale
Les Minieres, France
July dtbc

Extraordinary Dances, Dance and Handicap
Erasmus+ exchange of practices
T’Cap, Nantes, France
June 14-19

Extraordinary Dances, Dance and Handicap
Erasmus+ exchange of practices
Domino, Leiden, The Netherlands
April 5-10

Tactile Gaze, Sensorial practices through dance and reading.
12 weekly practice
LAK courses, Leiden University
March 8 - June 7

La table du zine
atelier, practice of publishing between two forests , between regenerative agriculture and dance - with pupils of Ecole des Mots Tordus
Les minières, France
February 25

The Gleaners and The Worms
research residency with Nina Boas
January 20-21

2021

The Gleaners and The Worms
reading session with Ilse van Rijn
December 16

The Gleaners and The Worms
reading session with with Nienke Terpsma, Mariëlle Verdijk, and Nina Boas
November 18-19

To the Lighthouse
exchange of practices between peer artists and spaces for experimental practices across Europe
Amarelarte, Faro, Portugal
November 8-1

Tactile Gaze, Sensorial practices through dance and reading.
12 weekly practice
LAK courses, Leiden University
September 21 - December 14

Nibbling Wormholes
research presentation
CARPA 7, Elastic Writing in Artistic Research
University of the Arts Theatre Academy Helsinki
August 26-28

Papiers
residency with 'Papier multiforme, Papier comestible', 'Papier telephone', 'Papiers voisins', 'Papier incomestible'
DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam
June 28 - July 9

The polyphony of mentoring voices within artistic research
working session peers of the peers network
Conference Secrets, Treasures, and Sharing - Researching and Sharing?
UdK, Berlin
June 25

Reading in Performance, Lire en Spectacle
research presentation
Camping - Recherche: Journees d'etude En lisant, en dansant – formes et pratiques de la lecture en danse
INHA, Paris
June 22-23

Care Dare Share 12th SAR Conference on Artistic Research
Publication in the frame of the lost conference (the 11th Conference)
Papier comestible
April 7-9

Reading in Performance, Lire en Spectacle
'Viva Voce' PhD defense, with examiners Efrosini Protopapa and Siobhan Davies
January 22, 11AM

2020

Dial-a-Spectacle
A miniseries of remote and analogue performances
From September 24 to November 5
Thursdays, 8PM (UTC+1, UK time zone), 9PM (UTC+2, NL time zone)

Papier telephone
Collective telephone call
Thursday October 8 and 15, 8PM (UK time), 9PM (NL time)
as part of Dial-a-Spectacle

Papier incomestible
Special edition of the book
Thursday September 24
as part of Dial-a-Spectacle

Papier telephone
Collective telephone call
June 14, 20:30
iii, The Hague

Papier multiforme, Papier comestible CANCELLED
Performance
May 26, 27
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

Papier multiforme, Papier comestible CANCELLED
Performance and talk
Crisis Collective! 11th international conference on artistic research
March 25,26,27,28
KMD, Bergen

Papier incomestible
Book launch
Come Together #5
March 7
Frascati, Amsterdam

Papier multiforme
Performance
Come Together #5
March 7
Frascati, Amsterdam

2019

...Through Practices / Radical hope Heike Langsdorf and many others
Emilie Gallier joins as a dedicated witness
October 28, 29, 30
KASK, Ghent

Reading in performance
Workshop/Research presentation for Master of Theatre Practices
October 4
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem

Reading in performance
Research presentation for COMMA
September 4
Fontys, TIlburg

The Moment of Reading
Guest Lecture for ArtEZ Bachelor of Dance
February 25
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem

2018

THIRD Annual Forum
December 14 and 15
Performance of Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible with responses by Augusto Correiri, Agnese Cornelio, Margarida Guia on December 14, 15:00
Perdu, and DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible
Performance and response by sound artist Margarida Guia
December 13 and 14, 20:00
Perdu, Amsterdam

You are here! IDOCDE Symposium
27-29 July
Vienna

Mind the Dance Residency
23-27 July
Vienna

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible
We Live Here
July 12
DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam

The Moment of Reading, Times Overlapped
Lecture Performance
Digital Echoes Symposium 2018: Reflections off the future
April 23
C-DaRE, Coventry University

Floor Work and Qualities of Movement
Amateur classes
LAK courses
April 2018 and May 2018
Leiden University

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible
DAS Research, Amsterdam
Friday March 23, 20:00 and Saturday 24 March, 16:00
DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible (short)
De Vloeibare Avond
Friday February 2, 20:00
Perdu, Amsterdam

2017

Qualities of Movement
4 weekly sessions
LAK courses, University of Leiden
Friday nov 10 - dec 1, 17:30 19:00
Lipsius Cleveringaplaats 1 2311 BD Leiden

Out of the Blue Conference
October 27-29, participation with THIRD
Udk, Berlin

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible (try-out)
Weisslich 10 festival
October 20
Guest Projects, London

Papier multiforme et Papier comestible
Residency
Oct 16-20
Guest Projects, London

Confluences. Workshop on tactile enunciations, rhtythm, and reading.
co-led with Teoma J. Naccarato
October 12
Centre for Dance Research, C-DaRE, Coventry

Movements of Reading and Dreams, keys to other realities
4 weekly sessions
LAK courses, University of Leiden
Friday sept 22 - oct 13, 17:30 19:00
Lipsius Cleveringaplaats 1 2311 BD Leiden

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible (try-out)
DAS Research
July 20, 15:30
Overhoeksplein 2, 1031KS Amsterdam

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible
Residency at DAS Research
July 16 - July 20
Overhoeksplein 2, 1031KS Amsterdam

POETICS OF THE IMAGINARY: READING SESSIONS AND COMMUNAL DREAMING
July 16 - July 20
BAU studio’s, Entrepotdok 4, Amsterdam

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible (try-out)
Dance and Somatic Practices Conference
July 7
Ellen Terry Building, Coventry

Dance and Somatic Practices Conference
July 7 - 9
Centre For Dance Research, Coventry

Papier mutliforme et Papier Comestible (try-out)
June 30
CLOUD, The Hague

Mouvements de lecture et rêves, clefs de réalités nouvelles
Workshop
Regards Dansants, Festival d’Art Chorégraphique Contemporain en Cotentin
Du Corps Social au Corps Dansant
May 13-14
Espace culturel de la Hague, Normandie

Paperness
Research Residency
Regards Dansants, Festival d’Art Chorégraphique Contemporain en Cotentin
Du Corps Social au Corps Dansant
May 8-13
Espace culturel de la Hague, Normandie

Movements of reading and dreams, keys to other realities
4 sessions course (4x1h30)
April, on Wednesdays 20:15-21:45
LAKcursussen, Leiden University

Confluences. Workshop on tactile enunciations, rhtythm, and reading.
co-led with Teoma J. Naccarato
March 2
CLOUD, The Hague

2016

Confluences. Workshop on tactile enunciations, rhtythm, and reading.
co-led with Teoma J. Naccarato
Dance Fields Post-Graduate Research Un-Symposium
December 9
Coventry University, ICE Building

Trouble Wit
Performances
Repetitions: Performance and Philosophy in Ljubjana
September 22-25
City Museum of Ljubljana

Read. Move. Implicated
Silent lecture performance
TaPRA 2016 Conference, Documenting Performance Working Group
September 6
University of Bristol

Modes of Languages: words as material
Impulstanz Intensive with Emma Cocker, Christine De Smedt, and Nikolaus Gansterer
July 30 -31
Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna

On Time: Reading sessions and Communal dreaming, with Mala Kline
We Live Here Academy in Amsterdam
July 4 - 8
DAS Graduate School, Grootlab, Amsterdam

Trouble Wit
Performance
June 8
Coventry University

Trouble Wit
Performance
April 29
Coffee Star, Leiden

Read. Move. Implicated.
Lecture performance
Artistic Research, Is There Some Method?
April 9
Academy of Performing Arts, Prague

Trouble Wit
Performance
March 19
CLOUD, The Hague

Trouble Wit
residency
March 7-17
CLOUD, The Hague

Read. Move. Implicated.
Lecture performance
Digital Echoes Symposium - (re)collecting the past: (re)making the future
March 4
Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University

2015

Trouble Wit
collaboration with Tilman Andris
residency at CLOUD at Danslab
Dec. 8-16
CLOUD, Den Haag

Read. Move. Implicated.
Lecture performance
Practice as research GTF meeting
October 31
CMedical School, Hamburg

Teacher Dance Improvisation, Modern Contemporary Dance
LAK Cursusbureau, Leiden University
Starting 24-25 September
Leiden

29th Biennial Conference of ICKL
International Council of Kinetography Laban, Labanotation
24-30 July
CCN de Tours

Participant to the workshop Quality of participation
We live here 2015
July 7-9
Amsterdam

Participant to the workshop with Loic Touze
‘to dance is to see, to see together’
June 29 - July 3
CND, Paris

Collaborator for the research presentation of Vera Sofia Mota
June 17
ArtEZ, Arnhem

Collaborator (Laban Movement notation) Good morning Mr. Mesmer by Yota Ioannidou
No need for references
June 10 -July 18
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Folding my body
Installation and performance (in coll. with KABK)
LISFE (Leiden international short film experience)
30 Apr., 1-2 May
De Meelfabriek, Leiden

Horizon
Leiden Int. Dance Day
29 Apr.
RijksMuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

In print, conducting an artistic research
Lecture, April 13
ArtEZ Dansacademie, Arnhem

Read. Move. Implicated
'lecture-performance VDO
28 Feb.
Parnassos Cultuurcentrum, Utrecht

2014

Sync
Book-performance
The Big Draw
Sept. 27.
Babooka bookstore, Leiden

Dance Notation series 4
June 21
Frascati, Amsterdam

In print, conducting an artistic research
January 8
ArtEZ Dansacademie, Arnhem

Surprise lecture
Artist talk for KABK students exhibiting 35 Titles for a group show
Jan. 25
Rijnstraat, Den Haag

2013

Inventing Futures
Gathering on Artistic Research and Launching of the publication
Dec. 2-3
ArtEZ, Arnhem

On Proportions
Lectures in small/medium/and large formats about how dance systems of Notation can inspire the understanding of prportions, within the architecture symposium
Nov. 27
De Oude Rechtbank, for de TU Eindhoven

It was big enough to get me completely inside
Performance in the project of Rosie Heinrich
Nov. 23
Het Veemtheater, Amsterdam
Nov. 29
Words Live 4, Perdu, Amsterdam
Nov. 30, Dec 1
Words Live 4, Wallgallery, Rotterdam

Movement Composition
Workshop sessions on writing movement
Sept. 21, Oct. 19, Nov. 16, Dec. 14
LAK, Leiden University

Trouble Wit - Le papier du pere Matthieu
Residency with magician and philosopher Tilman Andris
July 22 - August 3
CLOUD, The Hague

Twists (in the body of the Big Spectator)
Very implicated spectators event number 2, co-organized with Bertha Bermudez (ICKamsterdam)
July 17
Amsterdam

Post-Hoc Dramaturgy
Participation to We Live Here: An Academy 2013
July 8-13
Frascati WG, Amsterdam

Twists (in the body of the Big Spectator)
Residency with Ola Maciejewska, Adaline Anobile, Jean Baptiste Veyret Logerias, Lars Kynde, Angel Faraldo - deciphering and performing the score (Reading choreography Kit - Twists)
June 17-28
De Pianofabriek, Brussels

Scores as compositional strategy
June Work Sessions
June 2, 9, 16, 30 & July 7
Frascati studio, Amsterdam

Twists (in the body of the Big Spectator)
Residency with Angel Faraldo and Lars Kynde - conception of the 'sound cells' of the Big Spectator, practice of the overall installation, search for sound materials toward composition.
June 7-9
CLOUD, The Hague

The dorsal chance
Installation of the door as interactive environment for the visitors of the Galerie de Pieter and short performance part of the exhibition Kunst en Film for the Leiden International Short Film Experience.
May 31
Galerie de Pieter, Leiden

Twists (in the body of the Big Spectator)
Very implicated spectators event number 1, co-organized with Bertha Bermudez (ICKamsterdam) as part of the Dance Notations encounter
May 25
Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK) , Amsterdam

Ancient and contemporary techniques of improvisation
Workshop co-led with Laura de Gaspari (Egyptian dancer)
May 18
LAK University of Leiden

Twists (in the body of the Big Spectator)
Residency - conception of the Reading choreography Kit - Twists, and prepare modalities of implication
May 8-12
CLOUD, The Hague

Scores as compositional strategy
Participation to the workshop with Matteo Fargion
May 3-5
Frascati studio 109, Amsterdam

What to do online?
Co-organization of the conference and presentation of our proposal for online research at CLOUD ('punctation')
April 21
CLOUD, The Hague

Sync
The book-performance is now available on Books on the move!
April 19
World Wide Web

Zilver Flotations
Participation to the Choir singing workshop by Jean Baptiste Veyret Logerias and within Zilver Flotations (sarma)
April 9-12
Beursshouwburg , Brussels

If we were together in print
Lecture-performance for the symposium Event in Artistic and Political Practices
March 28, 15h
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

Drawing Time Now
Design experiment
January 25 - February 1
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture

In print, conducting an artistic research
Guest lecturer for the Minor Maker program
January 15
ArtEZ Dansacademie, Arnhem

Moving, Speaking and Writing
Participation workshop with Efrosini Protopapa
January 7-8
ArtEZ, Arnhem

2012

It was big enough to get me completely inside
collaboration in the performance project of Rosie Heinrich
December 6, 20h
Sub urban video lounge, Rotterdam

It was big enough to get me completely inside
collaboration in the performance project of Rosie Heinrich
November 25
Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam

Sync
performance and workshop within the frame of Labo21
November 23-24
ICK Amsterdam

Labo21
ICK internal lab, Pre-choreographic Elements research project
November 21-24
ICK Amsterdam

Voicelab 2
participation to the Homemade radio workshop
November 5 to 9
Pianofabriek (+Sarma and WorkSpaceBrussels), Brussels

Sync
book-performance
November 5, 8pm
Volksroom open Monday, Brussels

Sync
book-performance
October 13, 19h
Counter Punch!, Dansmakers Amsterdam

Sync
book-club
October 11, 16h
Counter Punch!, Dansmakers Amsterdam

If we were together in print
lecture-performance in the frame of the conscious body meeting
October 7
Universite Paris 8, Paris

The conscious body: an interdisciplinary dialogue
meeting between dance makers and cognitive neuroscientists
with Myriam Gourfink, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Eva Karczag, Bigna Lenggenhager, Erik Myin, Aaron Schurger
October 5-7
Universite Paris 8, Paris

If Choreography were a fish, Writing would be its Dorsal Fin
lecture to the Master student in Choreography
September 21
ArtEZ, Arnhem

Functional integration
participant to workshop with Salva Sanchis
September 17-20
Arnhem

If we were together in print
lecture-performance
August 30
ArtEZ, Arnhem

On no time
participant to Coaching Project by Janez Jansa
July 23-27
Impulstanz, Vienna

Letter to CLOUD
lecture: Artistic Research in relation to the development of CLOUD as a context for it, encounter with Doron Hirsh and Vera Sofia da Mota
July 1
CLOUD, The Hague

It was big enough to get me completely inside
collaboration in the performance project of Rosie Heinrich
June 20
Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem

Sync
performance
May 24, 20h
ArtEZ, Arnhem

Sync
workshop reading choreography
May 18, 19, 20
Cloud (Danslab), The Hague

Twist in the body of the Big Spectator
(new project) research presentation
March 17, 18, 20:15
Dansmakers, Amsterdam

(Dance) Notation Series: Reading/Writing dance
lecture about Sync for the research encounter with Kerstin Kussmaul and Bertha Bermudez
February 4
ICKamsterdam, Amsterdam

Sync
workshop reading choreography
February 3, 4, 5
ICKamsterdam, Amsterdam

Sync
book-performance releasing
January 19

2011

Sync
Presentation within the Wintertuin festival
November 26
Lindenberg Theater, Nijmegen

The dorsal chance
Performance at the Kunstfestival Scheltema Beweegt
November 20
Scheltema, Leiden

Sync
opening of research stages
November 17
Generale Oost, Arnhem

Sync
opening of research stages
November 10
Generale Oost, Arnhem

Practicing Composition: Making Practice
HZT Erasmus Intensive Programme
October 23 - November 4
Uferstudios, Berlin

In print, conducting an artistic research Lecture
to the Bachelor students of ArtEZ, Minor Maker program
October 14
ArtEZ Academy of Arts, Arnhem

Dorsal
Lecture/performance
September 23
M4gastateliers, Amsterdam

Dorsal
Lecture/performance
July 14-16
Uferstudios, Berlin

We live here, an academy
July 5-10
Frascati WG, Amsterdam

Notations Summer Gathering
July 2
Kulter, Sanderijnstraat 21, Amsterdam

Reading faces
June 16-17
'Out of Context' Generale Oost, Arnhem

Camillo 2.0
May 25-29
Performance Studies International Conference, PSi#17
Utrecht

The dorsal chance
April 7-8
'MABA' ArtEZ,Arnhem

2010

"Freedom and Constraint"
international postgraduate gathering with Ivana Muller, Alexandra Waierstall, Bojana Cvejic, Erik Kaiel, Jonathan Burrows

December 6-10
ArtEZ, Arnhem

BLOB
Juin
Festival Echappée Belle, Blanquefort

BLOB
27 Février
JTCE, La Cascade, Bourg Saint Andéol

2009

faces
11 Septembre
TROIS C-L, Luxembourg

Horizon
28 Février
PRCC Royaumont

Hundreds of Memories
25 Janvier
Hellemmes

2008

Horizon
20 Décembre
PRCC Royaumont

Horizon
2 Novembre
PRCC Royaumont

Notebook Living, Wonder, vidéo-danse / Kristal Montana et Emilie Gallier.
26 Octobre
PARADISO, Weteringschans, AMSTERDAM

Wirrwarr am Tripkau
27 Septembre
Freedesigndom festival
OBA, Amsterdam

Essais et réflexions
16 Aout
PRCC Royaumont

Hundreds of Memories
30 Juin
festival de Kerhervy, Lanester

Hundreds of Memories
20 Juin
Kunst vs Kunst, de Talent Factory, Den Bosch

Quart d’heure cherbourgeois,
12 Juin
Cherbourg

PAM’S KITCHEN
17 Mai
festival Danse de Tous Les Sens
Falaise

PAM’S KITCHEN
5 et 6 Mai
festival Danse et Architecture
Cherbourg

Hundreds of Memories
23 Février
De Illusie, the Hague