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Dance, theater, sociology. Writer @nytimes, @FT. Associate prof. @Sorbonne_Nvelle. 📚 Une histoire dessinée de la danse (Seuil), Créer des ballets (@CNRSEd).
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In an Italy of Many Voices, Her Plays Speak ‘the Language of the People’

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By Laura Cappelle Verified
| The New York Times Verified
Few artists working today are as closely identified with Sicily as the theater director Emma Dante. Her first stage hit, “In Palermo,” from 2001, was named for her hometown and featured the local dialect. From 2008 onward, the city also housed her company’s work space, La Vicaria, from which her international career took flight. Yet last year, Dante closed La Vicaria and moved to Rome.
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She Punished Her Body Onstage for Years. Now, She’s Testing New Limits.

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By Laura Cappelle Verified
| The New York Times Verified
The French theater-maker Rébecca Chaillon pushes her body to startling extremes onstage. In “Carte Noire Named Desire,” from 2021, she spent 40 minutes scrubbing the boards on her knees; in “The Cake,” which has been part of her repertoire for 15 years, she slowly ingests raw ingredients — milk, flour, eggs — to “bake” a birthday cake inside her body. Yet after two decades of performing, Chaillon said recently that her body didn’t quite hold up the way it used to.
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She Punished Her Body Onstage for Years. Now, She’s Testing New Limits.

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By Laura Cappelle Verified
| The New York Times Verified
The French theater-maker Rébecca Chaillon pushes her body to startling extremes onstage. In “Carte Noire Named Desire,” from 2021, she spent 40 minutes scrubbing the boards on her knees; in “The Cake,” which has been part of her repertoire for 15 years, she slowly ingests raw ingredients — milk, flour, eggs — to “bake” a birthday cake inside her body. Yet after two decades of performing, Chaillon said recently that her body didn’t quite hold up the way it used to.
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