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PERFORMANCES AND DEAF MUSIC

 

Music is movement.

 

The word derives from the Greek mousike, meaning "the art of the muses." Deaf music is signed music, that is, music in sign languages created by Deaf people. It can be original creations or translations of hearing music into various sign languages. Music is an art shaped by rhythm... which can also be visual.

 

I create using the authentic movement approach, proposed by choreographer Mary Starks Whitehouse in the 1950s. Artist Tedi Tafel describes this spontaneous expressive practice as: "embodying what emerges without interfering." Authentic movement invites us to let the gesture arise from deep intuition or a spontaneous impulse, without seeking to control the movement through thought.

 

In research-creation, I cultivate a sense of the performative that runs through my approach. As Sylvie Tourangeau, a pioneer of performance art in Canada, points out: "The performative is unpredictable. The performative inevitably transforms. The performative materializes potentialities. It cannot manifest itself without us being ready to be confronted with what we believe we are and know."

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Since 2023, in order to make the music I create accessible to non-signers, I have been writing poems that are available under the videos.

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