Pauline L. Boulba’s project is focuses on the intersection of discursive, poetic and choreographic issues, such as the desire to link one’s position as spectator and researcher to the works that created it. After studying Two discussions of an anterior event by Jennifer Lacey and Rue by Volmir Cordeiro, her fragmentary language explores two works by Alain Buffard, playing with different ways or articulating language and the body: Dispositifs 3.1, an open work, using song, theory, cross-dressing, and My Lunch with Anna, an interview in the form of a digression with the American choreographer Anna Halprin.

Using registers of heterogeneous words, Pauline L. Boulba summons the original works as a support, drawing on their materials to articulate her voice, fashion her gesture; between imitation and anthropophagy, recycling and invention, she explores Dispositifs 3.1 and My Lunch with Anna, not in the manner of a ‘revival’ but rather as an all-terrain research. Navigating between floating temporalities, she roots about, delves deeper into words, creates physical and imaginary associations, and fabricates a fiction, of all the traces left in her by Alain Buffard’s transgressive bodies.

An artist and researcher, Pauline L. Boulba has written performances and texts (essays, rap, poems) which draw on her experiences as a spectator of work shown in particular at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers or the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale. From 2015 to 2017, she created a series of solos entitled La Langue brisée. Her work is nourished by her various artistic collaborations with Sorour Darabi (Savušun), Anne-Lise Le Gac (La caresse du coma) and Pol Pi (Ecce (H)omo), as well as interventions with students (Département Danse of Paris 8 and Formation Exerce at the CCN of Montpellier).

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).