His ardor tempered by his incisive lucidity operated a funny mix during each conversation with Jean-Paul Montanari on contemporary dance. There is no question of camping in soft on a subject he knew by heart and to which he had devoted his life, all his life. The director of the Montpellier Danse festival from 1983 to 2024, an unsubstantial figure of an international demonstration today, died on April 25, following pulmonary cancer, at the Montpellier hospital. He had just retired in December 2024. He was 77 years old.
Jean-Paul Montanari was born in Algiers on December 5, 1947. He often mentioned this country, his childhood and the Mediterranean as sources of nostalgia and inspiration. Among the three cities where he regularly stayed was Marrakech, next to Tel Aviv and Montreal. He regularly invited the artists of the Mediterranean basin, like the Moroccans Bouchra Ouizguen and Taoufiq Izeddiou.
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