Gilberte Cournand

Gilberte Cournand , journalist and critical of Dance, galerist, French bookseller and also patron , was born the September 25th 1913 with Gérardmer in the the Vosges and died the July 30th 2005 with Louveciennes in the Yvelines.

Biography

Gilberte Violetta Sinère Scarset is born the day before the declaration of the Guerre of 14. She speaks little about her childhood in the Vosges, area so painfully touched by the war and misfortunes. She marries Doctor Cournand and it is under the name of her husband that she becomes a figure impossible to circumvent of the world of the dance.

Gilberte Cournand is the founder in 1951 of the gallery-bookstore the Dance , Dauphine place then street of Beaune in the 7th district of Paris, in the district of the antique dealers, the Square Left bank. She writes in the best specialized magazines and regularly in the newspaper Parisian the . All the Danse was for it a subject of interest for the choreographers and the dancers, passing from the Ballet dancing with the Hip-hop, with a curiosity which the years did not tarnish. Gilberte Cournand was a memory of the dance.

In 1996, it put on sale at the Hôtel Drouot most of its invaluable collection of books on the dance; it made gift of more than 4.000 volumes, files, reviews and photographs with the National center of the Dance.

Gilberte Cournand receives the badges of officer in the national order of the Légion of honor on Wednesday, September 22, 1999, it had been made knight on October 27th 1983.

Homages

  • Homage of Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, minister for the culture and the communication, with Gilberte Cournand on July 29th, 2005.
  • a room of reading and video of the Media library of the NDT was baptized " Room Gilberte Cournand".

Works on the dance

She wrote some books on the dance and of many press articles:
  • Reflections of the dance , chronic weekly magazine in the newspaper Parisian the
  • Beauty of the dance , Turns, Gautier-Languereau, 1977
  • Laurent Sebillote (to dir.), Catalog of the donation Gilberte Cournand , ED. NDT, 2002
It took part in the design of discs on the music of dance:
  • Wonders of the ballet, Variations and great steps , Gilberte Cournand, Michel De Faria (January 1998), CD album
  • Music for the lesson of dance, Exercises of bar and medium, Georges Rabol, Gilberte Cournand, Gilbert Mayer, CD album.
  • It makes carry out portraits or famous sculptures of dancers such as Claire Motte, Serge Lifar, Noëlla Pontois, Claude Bessy, Serge Golovine, etc In 2004, Gilberte Cournand required of the sculptor of the Currency of Paris, Rene Mayot, a medal commemorative with the effigy of Larrio Ekson on the avers and representing Carolyn Carlson and Larrio Ekson in just a moment ago , ballet given to the national Opéra of Paris in 1974.

References

  • Speech of the Minister for the culture and Transport of July 29th, 2005
  • Baptism of a room Gilberte Cournand with the media library of the dance of the NDT
  • Speech for the handing-over of the badges of Officer of the Legion of Honor
  • Files since 1944 of the newspaper '' Parisian the ''
  • Lists of promoted about the Legion of honor of July 13rd, 1999

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