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SESSIONS About Malkovsky’s Free Dance and its transmission by Suzanne Bodak, France Paper Born in Czechoslovakia, François Malkovsky (1889-1982) discovered France in 1910. In 1912 he met Raymond and Isadora Duncan. These contacts deeply influenced his approach of an art of movement. Malkovsky observed and analysed movements of animal life and nature. These were the basis for his own movement vocabulary.Through his technique and his dances Malkovsky aimed for a free body, a “danse libre”, a free dance. From 1959 to 1970, Suzanne Bodak was one of Malkovsky’s students in its Parisian studio. Ten years ago, she decided to pass on this heritage. The choreographic studies created by Malkovsky's between 1922 and 1936 give an insight to the historical dance context and highlight the aesthetics and ethics underlying Malkovsky's research. From 1997 to 2000, Suzanne Bodak was helped in this project by Karin Hermes-Sunke, who transcribed in dance notation exercices of Malkovsky’s key movements and 10 choreographies, according to Suzanne Bodak’s remembrance and interpretations. These notations were published in the book: "Mémoire vive d’un héritage, la Danse Libre de François Malkovsky", (also available in its english version : Living heritage, Malkovsky’s Free Dance). To complete and enrich this book, Suzanne Bodak is currently working on a DVD project, wich aims at presenting Malkovsky’s exercices and dances. The film sequences were shot in october 2004 with two professional dancers trained in dance notation : Emmanuelle Carabin and Philippe Reinaldos, who learned first the dances by oral transmission. Following these experiences, we can ask : what brings the study of the basic principles, proposed by Malkovsky in 1927 to a dancer today? The session will propose to share dancers’ experiences during their training period, wich were different according to each one background; to link Malkovsky’s "Free Dance" basic principles with each dancer’s techniques; to evoke the changes they implement in their teaching methods; to study the notation benefits for each of them; to find out Malkovsky’s dance specificity in the scores. The presentation will be enriched by the showing of DVD excerpts, notation excerpts and live performance by a dancer. Suzanne Bodak, former Malkovsky’s student has been teaching the "Free Dance" since 1978, while working as school teacher for the French Ministry of Education.
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