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Emma Bigé

Emma Bigé studies, writes, translates, curates, and improvises between the fields of dance, transfeminist and environmental studies. She used her PhD in philosophy as an excuse to curate two dance exhibitions on the histories of Contact Improvisation (Musée de la danse, Rennes, 2018) and on the life & works of dance improviser Steve Paxton (Culturgest, Lisboa, 2019). Co-editor of anthologies on improvisation, and author of Mouvementements. Écopolitiques de la danse (La Découverte, 2023), she is currently working with trans* & ecological studies, translating queer theorists and writers (Jack Halberstam, Sara Ahmed, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Eva Hayward...), and preparing two books on ecosex theory and transecofeminism.
  • Lundis-Livres : Emma Bigé 

    Mouvementements

    by
    • Emma Bigé
    • Julie Enckell Julliard

    What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content? The Lundis…

  • Notes on trans*grievability

    by
    • Emma Bigé

    Could we learn to grieve without fetishizing our dead (human or more-than-human)? Could we spend more time with our dead without making them into “steps” in the advancement of other causes?

  • Habits de scène, vêtements de vie

    by
    • Emma Bigé
    • François Chaignaud
    • Elizabeth Fischer
    • Magali Le Mens

    A dialogue with choreographer and performer François Chaignaud, led by philosopher and choreographer Emma Bigé and art historian Magali Le Mens, co-organized by HEAD – Geneva and the Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités of the University of…