Featured: Alain Buffard (France)

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Alain Buffard started dancing in 1978 with Alwin Nikolaïs at the Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers. He danced in several productions from Brigitte Farges and Daniel Larrieu, as well as Régine Chopinot, Philippe Decouflé. He realizes a choreography for two plays with Marie-Christine Georghiu, accompanied by the Rita Mitsuko rock group, a first solo Bleu nuit in 1988, and Wagner's Master singers of Nuremberg staged by Claude Régy in 1989.

While carrying on his career as a dancer, he worked as an assistant in Anne de Villepoix 's Gallery for exhibitions on R. Zaugg, Fischli & Weiss, Chris Burden and V. Acconci. At the same time, he was a correspondent for two Norwegian daily papers, for which he covered visual arts events in France.

He stoped dancing between 1991 and 1996. In 1996 he made two decisive meetings : one with Yvonne Rainer on the occasion of the updating of her play Continuous Project Altered Daily by the Albrecht KNUST Quatuor, and another one with Anna Haplrin, with whom he worked as the winner of the "Villa Medicis - hors les murs" prize.

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