DANSE L’ÉTREINTE / EMBRACE DANCE
Thanks to his numerous trips around the world, Tristan Jeanne-Valès is keeping track of the larger part of the contemporary dance creations, realized during the 1980s. This exploration goes from the dance worlds of Jean-Claude Gallotta, Régine Chopinot, Dominique Bagouet, Pina Bausch and Trisha Brown, and continues in the world of more contemporary choreographers as Josef Nadj, Catherine Divèrres, Mathilde Monnier and many others, among which those who  have brought a new spirit in the landscape of dance.

The choreographer Jean-Claude Gallota, who has collaborated with Tristan Jeanne- Valès, has said:
“Dance owes some essential things to the photography, its existence in time and part of its posterity (future presentation). The following generations can approach to the work of the choreographers often mainly through the captured gesture and grasped movements”

Yoann Thommerel from the Institute for Archives Conservation and Development from Caen, about Tristan Jeanne-Valès’ approach of work says that :  … his retrospective approach and shooting of how the bodies embrace, special moments often sexual, or bodies in contact, with sensuality or brutality, abandon, pleasure, or suffering.

The exhibition Danse L’Etreinte is a fine sublime point where dance and photographic art meet (or “embrace”) and therefore, this work is the embrace’s work.

Danse L’Etreinte has been shown in Bolivia, at the organization of the French Alliance in La Paz, in October 2008, and at the Institute for Archive Conservation and Development in Caen (France) in November 2008.