WOOING
« Wooing », which is an elegiac exercise if ever there was, will involve a dialogue between the medievalist Nathalie Koble, whose subject also covers mediaeval revivals in literature and in contemporary art, and the poet and choreographer Sabine Macher, who uses forms in inventive ways.
Nathalie Koble is a philologist and researcher in mediaeval literature. She teaches mediaeval French language and literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, where she is in charge of the course devoted to poetic writing. Her research focuses on the links between texts and memory in a system of performance and “manuscriture” (literally: handwriting), based on both the appearance and “revenance”–return–of works. Her research deals with 13th century fictional works. She is also interested in the amorous language of the courtly tradition. On top of which she is working on her own poetic oeuvre.
Sabine Macher is a poet, dancer, choreographer and photographer. Though German, she writes in French. Her poetic work draws on private material, representing research and exploration somewhere between present and imaginary forms, also marked by their aloofness. She also produces sound pieces—spectacles which, either on her own or in collaboration with others, she presents in many different venues both in France and abroad.
