REST in Paris is a summary of dance experiences and explorations of site in the urban nature and culture of the French capital, and into the nature of collaboration and togetherness of the participants. It culminated in a performance in May 2025, directed by Jude Walton and shown at the Cinemorphe theatre company in Paris. A kind of prism and a starting point for new cycles, the theme drifts from urban nature to art, to philosophy and finally to love, as expressed and lived through dance. The book, less a documentation than a parallel reworking of the project in words and images, portrays and discovers aspects of this making process.
Jude Walton is a British / Australian independent dance artist, filmmaker and director. Maintaining a richly diverse artistic career for over 30 years Walton has worked across dance, film, and visual art, regularly collaborating with dancers, performers, musicians and visual artists in art galleries and specific sites in major cities across Australia and overseas. Throughout her extensive career, Walton has remained an instrumental figure in the Australian art scene. In 1990, she founded the Bachelor of Arts in Performance Studies at Victoria University, was a founding member of the journal Writings on Dance, that provided a forum for the discussion and analysis of contemporary dance in Australia, and a Board member of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Melbourne. She completed her Doctorate in 2011 and taught in the undergraduate and postgraduate areas of Performance Studies at Victoria University until 2012.
Sarita Beraha
Sarita Beraha is a Greek born and Paris based performer, visual artist and somatic therapist. She has a degree in Theatre Studies from Université de Sorbonne. She is an improviser. Her interest in contact improvisation and spontaneous composition nourish her work. Kirsty Simpson, Simone Forti, Julyen Hamilton, Barre Philips were significant support figures. Sarita Beraha is a somatic therapist and a Certified Teacher of Body Mind Centering®. She completed the seven-year training programme in Amherst, Massachusetts with BMC® founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She applies the BMC® explorations of human anatomy and physiology both in her teaching of Improvisation and in her private sessions.
Gesa Piper
Gesa Piper (she/her) is a German born dance-artist and -pedagogue based in Helsinki (FI). She is active as a performer, teacher & choreographer in various parts of the world. Her artistic interest deals with embodied ecological intra-relationality, process oriented psychophysical practices, ancestry and sociopolitical questions. She works often in collaborative settings and across disciplines. Her works have been staged and produced by Zodiak, Helsinki's Center for New Dance, UrbanApa x Ateneum, Danceateliers Rotterdam and more. Piper has been based in Finland since 2011 where she did her MA in Dance Pedagogy. She holds a BA from the Dance Academy ArtEZ in Arnhem and went through RAD classical ballet training since she was five years old. Other strong imprints on her performative and physical training are theatre-based as a former member of the Statt Theater Neumünster as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Markus A. Castor
Markus A. Castor is research director at the German Centre for Art History in Paris. He studied Art History, Classical Archaeology and Philosophy at the universities of Trier, Freiburg i. Br. and Constance. Assistant Professor at Freiburg University, Researcher of the Department of Italian Studies at the Technical University of Dresden he taught Art History at several universities in Germany and Paris, especially on modern times. His work focusses on arts and architecture of the Ancien Regime, the historiography of ancient afterlife and proto-art history in the age of Enlightenment. One aspect of his work is the question of the physical prerequisites of art historical work and the relationship of word and image from a phenomenological perspective.
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