Associate editor

Marie Pons, France

Marie Pons works on various projects related to contemporary dance and performance. As a dance journalist, she writes for several publications including Mouvement, LM Magazine, Inferno and Revue Facettes. She participates in All we can do is dance, a web project combining film and dance, and is coordinator for a forthcoming paper publication on dance in the North of France / Belgium. Through her writing, Marie has initiated dialogues and collaborations with several choreographers including Claire Buisson, João Costa Espinho, Meytal Blanaru, Thomas Guerry and Tatiana Julien. She is in charge of documenting through writing, sound and images for several European projects that focus on dance and its social implications, such as Dancing Museums (2016-2017) and Migrant Bodies (2018-2019).

Media by Marie Pons
Read Icon Samir Kennedy, The Aching. © Sam Coudrais

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Samir Kennedy: The Aching

Read Icon Bienvenue en territoire autochtone – Parcours Danse 2023. Photo © David Wong

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Parcours Danse 2023, Montreal

Read Icon Seated woman in vest and trunks, left arm stretched up, right arm bent forward, mouth open and hair flying. Behind her the diagonal rungs of a lighting rig and a vertical strip light. The whole photo has a deep red colour cast

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Interview: Mette Ingvartsen on The Dancing Public

Read Icon Daniel Linehan’s sspeciess. Photo © Danny Willems

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Daniel Linehan: sspeciess

Read Icon Local kids take the audience in hand in Francesca Grilli’s Sparks

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Slow and gentle: Santarcangelo Festival 2019

Watch Icon Maya Jilan Dong in Whip (Akram Khan Company, Portraits in Otherness). Costume design by Marie Cantenys.

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At work: Marie Cantenys

Read Icon Jan Martens’ Passing the Bechdel Test. Photo © Clara Hermans

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Jan Martens: Passing the Bechdel Test

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At work: Bára Sigfúsdóttir

Read Icon One body inhabited by many: Calixto Neto’s oh!rage

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Black and blue at Festival Les Plateaux

Watch Icon Screenshot of video Meytal Blanaru At Work

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At work: Meytal Blanaru