Deceptively inert, the sleeping body withholds strange muscular and tactile sensations, ushering in equally ethereal or troubling figures animated by wispy movements. Cahiers de Danse slept on these matters, so to speak. In three sections – “Sleeping on both ears”, “In Morpheus’s Arms” and “Midnight Demons” – the magazine invites you to let movements yawn wide open and to reveal the dances that sleep deeply within us. Seven articles and interviews point to the dancers’ fascination with the inscrutable depth of our sleeping bodies. While the urge to always produce is relentless, performing one’s sleep becomes as much an act of sabotage as one of artistic positioning.

Introduction | Céline Gauthier

× Sleeping on both ears
We are citadels | Alice Godfroy
Performing sleep | Virgile Novarina

× In Morpheus’s Arms
Sleeping Bodies, Sleep-less Ballets | Maëlle Rousselot
Sleep is a theatrical stance | Carolina Bianchi
“And then, I’m falling in the dark…” Confessions by drowsy spectators | Céline Gauthier

× Midnight Demons
Embracing the void | Dalila Belaza
Tarantella, a slumberous dance with cathartic powers | Tullia Conte