Une minute de danse par jour

<p>  </p> <p> Hello, my name is Nadia Vadori-Gauthier.</p> <p> I am a performance artist with a P.H.D. is Aesthetics (Contemporary Art and Performance Art)</p> <p> I dance and I do research, by questioning the limits between life and art.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F3ASl-WJwMBY%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3ASl-WJwMBY&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3ASl-WJwMBY%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=ff2702755d9749cda571c6d6c2f3eb46&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="540"></iframe></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> Since the attacks in Paris on January 2015, I have been comitting myself to a daily Performance Art project, an act poetic act of resistance : <strong><em>One Minute of Dance a Day</em></strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11831754_766849530091267_289388568656218180_n-1443247154" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235504/11831754_766849530091267_289388568656218180_n-1443247154.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Everyday, I dance for about one minute, in the physical and mental states and places where I happen to be, and I post the dance online. I dance indoors or outdoors, in public or in private locations, on my own or with others, with strangers, or with people I know, and sometimes even friends.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>I dance like I’m manisfesting for something, working towards a living poetry, to act with « the sensible » against the violence of certain aspects of the world.</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> That is the answer I have found to assign myself a daily action, small but concrete and reiterated,  something that can move the lines and shift the norm.</p> <p>  </p> <p> To me, One Minute of Dance a Day, is an aesthetic commitment, in other words a sensible commitment. A poetic, ethical and micro-political dedication, radical on a very small scale.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11173319_755159667926920_3135141447339871960_n-1443247951" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235515/11173319_755159667926920_3135141447339871960_n-1443247951.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11009196_707312172711670_7027150608949913239_n-1443247334" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235506/11009196_707312172711670_7027150608949913239_n-1443247334.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Also, I have been inspired for this project by a quote from Nietzsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra :</p> <p> <em><strong>« We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once » </strong></em></p> <p> It means to me that it is about staying alive, it is about living in movement and keeping the pace.</p> <p>  </p> <p> In the making of this project, I was also thinking about a Chinese saying:</p> <p> <em><strong>Drop by drop, the water eventually passes through the stone.</strong></em></p> <p>  It means that a minimal and repeated action eventually has a big effect.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11205183_720842508025303_4307520643095894145_n-1443247668" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235511/11205183_720842508025303_4307520643095894145_n-1443247668.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> The water drops are my daily danses, interstitial, unarmed, with no shields.</p> <p> The stone is the hardening of the world, the ever increasing separation between certain strata, communitarianisms, hierarchies, consumerisms, obscurantisms, the uncoupling of human and nature and the lack of a poetic active dimension in everyday life.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="10672038_711388518970702_6123979259983176563_n-1443247363" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235507/10672038_711388518970702_6123979259983176563_n-1443247363.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Ce projet performatif est un acte de résistance poétique, un défi au service duquel je mets mon engagement artistique. </strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11034312_688657574577130_1882504624591097818_n-1443247779" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235513/11034312_688657574577130_1882504624591097818_n-1443247779.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11825068_764435330332687_935875059922422737_n-1443247829" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235514/11825068_764435330332687_935875059922422737_n-1443247829.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> I am in the process of putting together a series of projections for my One of Minute of Dance a Day dances, at different locations, the week of the 4th to the 10th of January 2016.</p> <p> <strong>Today, I would love your help in financing this very special event that will mark one year of minutes of dance and of the memorial of the January shootings in Paris. </strong></p> <p> <strong>Thanks to you, I will be able to put together the projections, for which I already have the okay for 5 locations. This will give the public access to the project, and will allow me to carry on with the dances.</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11703146_754855181290702_3228110104473358212_n-1443248721" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235518/11703146_754855181290702_3228110104473358212_n-1443248721.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11182366_717171768392377_7806056320382188210_n-1443248774" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235519/11182366_717171768392377_7806056320382188210_n-1443248774.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11109513_731594806950073_2475858265150635006_o-1443247507" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235508/11109513_731594806950073_2475858265150635006_o-1443247507.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> I keep on dancing every day, thinking of you all, striving to make the world a little more sensible, to ease movement between categories and bodies.</p> <p> I bet it’s possible.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11923286_780238205419066_8990287572584320063_o-1443247732" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235512/11923286_780238205419066_8990287572584320063_o-1443247732.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Keep on dancing, quivering, between the cracks of daily life.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11879220_774072926035594_1225830151040886747_o-1443247597" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235510/11879220_774072926035594_1225830151040886747_o-1443247597.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em><strong>Drop by drop, the water eventually passes through the stone.</strong></em></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="10986967_702765419833012_8732241380505515832_n-1443248467" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235516/10986967_702765419833012_8732241380505515832_n-1443248467.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>I thank you for your precious support and I hope to see many of you at the upcoming projections that I would be unable to put together without you.</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="11050242_689861791123375_7285726322957831555_n-1443248648" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/235517/11050242_689861791123375_7285726322957831555_n-1443248648.jpg"></p>