Boris Charmatz

MoMA Dance is a new series of monographs exploring dance makers in the twenty-first century. Each volume focuses on a single contemporary choreographer, presenting a rich collection of newly commissioned texts along with a definitive catalogue of the artists projects. Accessible, informative, and inspiring, they are indispensible guides to contemporary dance for fans and scholars alike. Since shocking audiences in 1993, at age nineteen, with his radically sparse À bras le corps, Boris Charmatz has emerged as one of Frances leading choreographers. Whether hes creating a dance composed solely of everyday actions, working with an ensemble of children, or running a dancing museum, Charmatzs work experiments with the body as a vessel for subjectivity, history, and collective action. Featuring original essays and interviews and an oral history by Charmatzs contemporaries, the book is the first to explore the many facets of his careeras choreographer, writer, and director of Frances Musée de la danse.