Composing dance #1 Soa Ratsifandrihana

How are dance pieces composed? What tools do choreographers use to compose and notate the movements and the circulation of performers? Personalized note-taking, video, drawings, Laban or Benesh notation… there is not one single way to ‘write’ dance. The podcast Composing Dance explores the diversity of notation systems through dialogues with contemporary choreographers.

Our first guest is Brussels-based French and Malagasy dancer and choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana, the author of the solo g r oo v e (2021) and the quartet Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna (2024). Ratsifandrihana reveals the secrets of her choreographer’s notebooks in this interview with CN D Magazine Editor-in-Chief Belinda Mathieu.