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“For the beauty of the gesture”, an article from the magazine Eclairages

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Photographer Polina Jourdain-Kobycheva is preparing for this fall, with the support of the Public Office of the Basque Language, the release of a new book, Dantza, pilotari!. A year after Pilota arimak, published by Arteaz, the photographer of Russian origin offers a new immersion in Basque culture and once again sets her sights on its most sensitive standard: Basque pelota. This time, it is within the confines of a jaï-alaï that she has chosen to bring together two universes: that of cesta pointa, one of the disciplines of the twenty specialties that include Basque pelota, and classical dance. On the long wall of approximately sixty meters, she has directed a large projector of light: it serves as a frame and gives relief to these bodies whose movement and curves respond to each other in such a disturbing way. …

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