- Bigé, Romain (1987- )
- Romain Bigé is a philosophy teacher, dance improviser, and scholar based in France. Holder of the agrégation professorship in philosophy, he received a PhD from the École Normale Supérieure for his work on the poetics of Contact Improvisation (Sharing Movement. A Philosophy of Gestures with Contact Improvisation), for which he also received an ENS Fellowship (2013) and a Fulbright grant (2017).
His dance training involves work with contemporary choreographers and improvisers in the US and in Europe including Matthieu Gaudeau, Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith, Charlie Morrissey, and Joaõ Fiadeiro. As a dramaturg, he has most notably supported the work of Czech stage director Linda Dušková. And as a performer, he has collaborated among others with Myriam Lefkowitz, Chris Aiken, and Boris Charmatz.
He is interested in the way movement practices shape sensory cartographies and give way to original modes of relating to others.
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