Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement - Exhibition and accompanying catalogue
- Submitting institution
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Courtauld Institute of Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 35
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- The Courtauld Gallery, London
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This output is a curatorial project consisting of two core elements:
1. The catalogue Gerstein, ed., Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement (The Courtauld/Paul Holberton Publishers, 2016), which includes an essay of 5000 words and 70 catalogue entries written by Gerstein.
2. A dossier including documentation of research activities, exhibition design and installation images, and information about research dissemination activities.
Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement was a major exhibition on Auguste Rodin at The Courtauld Gallery curated by Gerstein. The exhibition was shaped over three years by Gerstein’s primary and contextual research into Rodin’s sculptural process in his later years. Gerstein’s archival findings around Rodin’s creation of the Dance Movement series fed into the technical findings made as part of the collaboration she initiated with curators and conservators at the Musée Rodin in Paris. Concurrently, Gerstein initiated the first systematic technical examination of Rodin’s drawings of dancers in his studio, working closely with the Musée Rodin’s curator of works on paper and The Courtauld Gallery’s conservator of works on paper.
Gerstein also undertook an eighteen-month collaborative research project with senior lecturers and postgraduate researchers in Movement Direction at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama around the Dance Movements. Through this multi-disciplinary collaboration with embodied research practitioners, Gerstein was able to construct new interpretations of the works and the observational encounter with the model in the studio. This experiential research led to an innovative methodological approach to exhibiting the sculpture. The exhibition also included live dance performances to extend the embodied understanding of the works from the world of the dancer to the visitor.
Following its success at The Courtauld, the Musée Rodin presented the exhibition, Rodin et la danse (7 April – 22 July 2018) which drew on Gerstein’s research material and curatorial approach.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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