Abstract EN:

Dominique Bagouet, french choregrapher, died in 1992 at the age of 41. Following on this premature death, the dancers of the Company Bagouet took the decision to continue dancing his choreographies and so to pass them on to following generations. To this end they founded the Association “les Carnets Bagouet” (The Bagouet Notebooks). Within this context of exchanges between the past and present, this work seeks to define the specificities of Dominique Bagouet’s choreographic writing. What is clearly shown is that his writing is to be analyzed on 3 levels: a choreographic universe, a choreographic gesture and transmission of the dance. Based on the experience of the “Carnets Bagouet”, this present work seeks to reveal the existence of the idea of transmission at the heart of Dominique Bagouet’s writing, this becoming an essential characteristic of his writing. Finally, what also appears is that the intimate being of the choreographer is the source of a writing whose purpose is to liberate those who dance it. Fundamentally, the matter of all writing is concerned with transmission and thus with the question of relationship. Ultimately we arrived at the theorization of choreographic writing whose point of departure is the self which strives to renew and recreate the links from which this self is formed.