Lavoir Numérique Exhibition Danses-Écrans, à la rencontre d’un phénomène / n + n Corsino - Self Patterns
Lavoir Numérique
Danses-Écrans,à la rencontre d’un phénomène
Exhibition from March 13 to August 16, 2026
4 rue de Freiberg 94250 Gentilly
Free admission: Wednesday to Friday from 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Saturday and Sunday from 1:30 pm to 7 pm
The Digital Washhouse is a cultural facility of the Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre public territorial establishment.
Curated by Aurélie Chêne and Šejla Duke.
With Vicki Dang, the Labkine company, Anouk Kruithof, n + n Corsino, Julien Prévieux, the INA archives, and series from BRUT and Arte.
Dancing with, in front of, through, or beyond screens: these are all ways to experience and live dance in the digital age. From MTV to YouTube and then TikTok, choreographies are first produced for the television screen, then for digital media, and then virally, and this represents a radical shift: everyone can film themselves online. The internet is a dance floor where creation and influence share the spotlight. With the screen, this living art is shaped by the social, aesthetic, and cinematic codes of the digital world. What happens to dance when the screen becomes the stage? How do we dance, how do we film online? What does dancing say about us?
From March 13 to August 16, 2026, the Lavoir Numérique explores these questions as part of its new series. At the heart of the program, the group exhibition “Dances-Screens” invites us to encounter this contemporary phenomenon: the perspectives of artists such as Vicki Dang, Compagnie Labkine, Anouk Kruithof, n + n Corsino, and Julien Prévieux engage with our research, the INA archives, and series from BRUT and Arte.
On Saturday, April 11, the performance “TikTok Choreographies” by Anna-Marija Adomaitytė celebrates the collective power of teenage dance. On Thursday, May 21, the Lavoir Encounters give a voice to experts in digital technology and dance, while film screenings awaken our curiosity and workshops invite us to experiment with photography, sound, and video.
A multidisciplinary, vibrant and inquisitive program, to think — and dance — in the age of screens.
Introduction to the exhibition
"Dancing with, in front of, or through a screen today engages new ways of experiencing movement, exploring its forms, presences, and shared experiences. Long confined to a common and tangible space, choreographic gestures are migrating to a digital territory where image intertwines with dance, reconfiguring our ways of being together. The exhibition examines this transformation: it observes the emergence of 'screen-dance' as a social and sensory phenomenon, revealing how digital technology is transforming our relationship to the body, to memory, and to community."
What happens to dance when the screen becomes the stage? Reconfigured by the image, it occupies a new space for creation, transmission, and sharing. Anouk Kruithof’s Universal Tongue composes a global memory of dance gestures; the series Viens on danse (Let’s Dance) gives substance to viral dances and underscores their activist dimension; La Fresque (The Fresco) traces the history of mediated dances, from television to endless scrolling. With La Machine (The Machine) by the Labkine company, the image no longer simply shows: it summons the body, calling upon it to reenact what it depicts, transforming vision into a shared experience. In counterpoint, Anna-Marija Adomaitytė’s performance TikTok-Ready Choreographies (presented on April 11, 2026) reveals the algorithmic logic that shapes our gestures, while What Shall We Do Next? Julien Prévieux's work shows the drift, where technological codification precedes incarnation. Self Patterns by the duo n + n Corsino and Magic City by Vicki Dang explore the body in augmented and urban space, and the documentary Dancing Bodies opens a reflection on the construction of self through the screen.
Captured, reused, or repurposed, gestures slip into the realm of flow, measurement, and algorithms. But at the heart of this space where visibility becomes the norm, dance also reinvents itself as a movement of resistance: it transforms the image into a stage for the living, where the body shapes and shares new imaginaries.
Aurélie Chêne, Anthropologist of Communication, Senior Lecturer, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne
