The influence of male sexual orientation in the current conception and practice of dance in France / Mathieu GOMEZ / 2023

Titre : The influence of male sexual orientation in the current conception and practice of dance in France Type de document : Mémoire Auteurs : Mathieu GOMEZ, Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Note générale : Pour accéder aux fichiers PDF, merci de vous identifier sur le catalogue avec votre compte Office 365 via le bouton CONNEXION en haut de page. Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Management INDUSTRIE CULTURELLE SECTEUR ; ART ; CHANGEMENT SOCIAL Résumé : In a symposium held at Avignon in 2003, Dominique Dupuy, choreographer and founder of the first ever professional modern dance company in France1, declared: “Dance is always included in the ellipsis at the end of a sentence” (Germain-Thomas, 2012, p.3), referring to the general lack of recognition towards the dance industry. However, in the recent years, dance has seen its general popularity significantly increase among other forms of performing arts in France, so much that it has growingly been recognized of cultural importance by the State, as proven by the raise of 77.95% in the subsidies granted for choreographic creation between 2000 and 20202. More and more, dance attracts people through all its consumption channels: videos, movies, television programs, lessons, workshops, street performances, competitions and staged shows. It is to be highlighted that the attendance to paid and free shows solely showcasing dance performance remains rather stable, as studied by the National Office for Artistic Diffusion (ONDA) and the General Direction for Artistic Creation (DGCA), but on the other hand, the number of professional companies have risen from 600 in 2000 to 1,400 in 2020 and the number of practitioners reaches 3 million today3. If the results of the research about attendance can be nuanced by their provenance from 87 dance structures, which makes them not representative of the dancing scene as a whole, there is a clear tendency indicating that the growth in popularity comes more from the creative side than from the audience. In other words, watching dance is legitimate but becoming a professional dancer is now a valued status graced by deference. Programme : MSc Cultural & Creative Industries Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=581678