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Myriam Van Imschoot


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Myriam Van Imschoot started her professional life as a dance critic for the Flemish newspapers Gazet van Antwerpen (1993-1995) and De Morgen (1995-1998). Sarma collects 60 percentage of these writings. Special focus is on the articles that appeared in the weekly arts supplement in De Morgen, called Café des Arts, as they were instances of a new genre in dance journalism in Belgium that combined journalism with essay-writing. These journo-essays portrayed choreographers and dancers, but also approached issues such as nationalism in dance, stillness in ballet, improvisation in the nineties, etc. In 1998 Myriam Van Imschoot left journalism when she accepted a full-time research position at the University of Leuven, with the support of the Fund for Scientific Research.

Biography


Myriam Van Imschoot (1969) graduated in Germanic Philology and specialized in Performance Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium. She was the dance critic for Gazet van Antwerpen (1993-1995) and De Morgen (1995-1998). From 1995 she was a staff member of the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven. In 1998 she became a full-time researcher at this university, with the support of the Fund for Scientific Research. Currently she is finishing a ph.d. on improvisation in cultures of spontaneity and the post-war avant-garde. Van Imschoot is the initiator and founder of Sarma. Her work as a lecturer, writer and theoretician has enabled her to travel extensively in Europe and the U.S., which has given her a broad perspective on the business, doing, making and studying of the performing arts.

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Bibliography


Books
  • Marc Vanrunxt. A portrait, Brussels, Flemish Theatre Institute, 1999 (reworked and Englisch version of the previous book)

  • Marc Vanrunxt. Een portret, Brussel, Vlaams Theater Instituut, 1998

    Special editions
  • Chief-editor (with Rudi Laermans) of Highway Journal, a traveling publication in conjunction with Highway 101, a multi-arts project of the American choreographer Meg Stuart and her company Damaged Goods. Five issues appeared throughout 2001, in dialogue with five cities and with the collaboration of visual artists, critics, philosophers, art curators, etc.

  • Guest-editor of the special issue on choreographer William Forsythe, for Dietsche Warande & Belfort, a Flemish literary magazine with interest in performing arts. DWB jg. 143 nr. 3, juni 1998, pp. 291-360

  • Guest-editor of the special issue on Dance in the Low Countries for Carnet, bi-lingual journal of Theater Institute Netherlands and the Flemish Theatre Institute, Brussels/Amsterdam, 1995

    Recent articles (a selection from 1996 onwards)
  • 'Anxious Dramaturgy', Woman and Performance, 2001 (contribution to a special issue on dramaturgy in dance, edited by André Lepecki)

  • 'The Sixth Sense van BDC. Of de zien-tuiglijkheid van de herinnering (The sixth sense of BDC. Or the seen-sibility of memory)', Etcetera, jg. 18 nr. 71, maart 2000, pp. 19-22

  • 'De sprong van Nijinsky' (The Jump of Nijinsky), Etcetera, jg. 17 nr. 69, okt. 1999, pp. 2-7 (in samenwerking met Rudi Laermans)
    Note: this text was a collaborative project with Rudi Laermans. Basically the result is the merging of two geno-texts. Especially for Sarma the unpublished manuscript that subsequently was merged with Laermans's contribution is made available too.

  • 'Oefening in microscopie' (Exercise in Microscopy), in Danssolo/Solodans, Hugo Haegens (ed.), Maasmechelen, CC Maasmechelen, 1999, pp. 10-20

  • 'Rorschach-test. Notities by een poster van Ballett Frankfurt' (Rorschach test. In the margin of a poster of Ballett Frankfurt), DWB, jg. 143 nr. 3, juni 1998, pp. 322-332

  • 'Het taterpaleis van Minister Martens' (The Palace of Blabbing and Minister Martens), De Vlaamse Gids, jg. 82 nr. 3, 1998, pp. 13-15

  • 'Maken en kraken: de rol van de criticus in de (re)constructie van carrières' (Making and breaking: the role of the critic in the (re)construction of careers), Dokumenta, jg. 16 nr. 4, 1998, pp. 346-354

  • 'Comets and Planets - Dancer and Choreographer Marc Vanrunxt/Comètes et planètes - Marc Vanrunxt, Danseur et Chorégraphe', Carnet, vol. 4 nr. 13, 1997, pp. 24-29

  • 'Forsythe met friet' (Forsythe with French Fries), Etcetera, jg. 15 nr. 59, 1997, pp. 7-11

  • 'Meg Stuart: On the Edges of Deserts/Meg Stuart: Aux limites des déserts', Carnet, vol. 4 nr. 12, 1997, pp. 24-31

  • 'Slow turning white flower effect. Naar aanleiding van het recente werk van Marc Vanrunxt', in: Dansencyclopedie, Marc Goossens (ed.), Berchem, CCBerchem, 1997, pp. VRU15-VRU20

  • 'I don't know, possibly, who knows. I don't. Pina Bausch, a portrait.', in: An unexpected journey. Woman and art, L. Huet and W. Neetens (eds.), Antwerpen: Gynaika, 1996, pp. 22-29

  • 'Lichaam/variaties in de dans' (Body/Variations in Dance), in: Handboek Culturele Studies. Concepten, Problemen, Methoden, J. Vlasselaers en J. Baetens (eds.), Leuven/Amersfoort: Acco, 1996, pp. 71-81

  • 'Een salon van weigeraars. Over het uitblijven van een dansbeleid', Etcetera, jg. 14 nr. 58, 1996, pp. 36-39

  • 'The Plurar Self of Walter Verdin/Les 'moi' multiples deWalter Verdin', Carnet, vol. 3 nr. 11, 1996, pp. 2-7

  • 'A Ship that Sails Out and Finds Itself in a Storm / Une navire qui appareille et qui se retrouve dans une tempête', Carnet, vol. 3 nr. 10,1996, pp. 22-25

  • 'World in a Square Metre / Le monde entier dans un mètre carré', Carnet, vol. 3 nr. 9, 1996, pp. 24-31

    Reviews
    More than two hunderd reviews, interviews and journalistic essays for the newspapers Gazet van Antwerpen and De Morgen. Sarma has collected 60 percent of this writing.

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