Poetry Boxing
Discover the physical origins of language and how to use it
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About Rimboxing Club
The Rimboxing Club is developing a poetics based on the idea that language is one state of movement, gesture another, and that there is a continuity between them. This multidisciplinary research, whose experience I offer and whose theory I develop, explores the diversity and malleability of individual or collective, verbal or corporeal poetic existence. All literature is thus opened up to the practice of all bodies through a grammar of movement.
In Orléans and then in Rennes, the experiment first focused on poetry and boxing. The name of the poet Arthur Rimbaud was combined with the idea of a Boxing Club.
This is how I discovered the fundamental links between linguistics and physical movement, and developed a new theory of language. Thanks to this, I transform texts into movement scores that can be performed in boxing, in various martial arts as well as in dance.
The facets of Rimboxing Club
Looking for something practical? Something concrete?
Videos illustrate the theory. Find out how to box Rimbaud, dance Heredia or build a kata... All based on Rimboxing Club movement scores.
And why not try it yourself?
Out of personal curiosity, in a club, association or school, contact me to arrange a meeting!
Sweat
Ink
Fighting sports, martial arts, dance and literature all use writing systems.
Reflecting on the notation of movement allows us to construct scores that can be interpreted both with the body and with words.
And what if words are a continuation of bodies? Then we can draw their movement in space and time on astrolinguistic charts.
Neurons
Rimboxing Club's work is accompanied by research into grammatical movement as a continuation of physical movement.
This led to the development of a theory showing the physical origins of verbal language. And the theory has even been turned into a board game.
A general presentation and details can be found in the Theory section.