WHERE THE SPIRIT MEETS THE BONE
2022-2023
About the book
Voor een ander zijn het misschien gewoon dansers, maar voor mij vertegenwoordigen ze fragmenten van het leven, van mijn leven. Als (ex)danser en dansmaker met een complexe innerlijke belevingswereld, is het vaak een zoektocht om uit te drukken wat zich vanbinnen afspeelt. Dans vertaalt mijn innerlijke beweging, beter dan woorden dat kunnen. Het gaat niet om dans, maar om het overbrengen van gevoelens en emoties waar we geen woorden voor hebben.
To another they may just be dancers, but to me they represent fragments of life, of my life. As a (former) dancer and dance maker with a complex inner world of experience,
it is often a quest to express what is going on inside. Dance translates my inner movement, better than words can. It’s not about dance, but about conveying feelings and emotions that cannot be expressed in words.
“We have been granted access to a private world, away from the formality of a choreographed performance available to view en masse and with rigid regularity. Between these pages we can revisit in quiet moments at our leisure, perhaps whilst Mingus whispers in our ears.”
(From a review by Robin Titchener. Read the whole review here.)
112 pages bounded with a handmade spine and sleeve (cover)
Paper: Munken pure 90/150 gr. (EU eco label)
Sleeve - Paperwise Natural 295 grams (Made of agricultural waste)
Open spine binding covered with bookbinders gaze
Font: Letter Gothic Std
Photography & Text: Monique Belier
Design & Edit: Monique Belier
Proofreading & Translation: Liese Herdewyn
Second edition: 150 Numbered and signed
Printing: Impressed Print
Binding: Agia
Self published, 2023 Monique Belier
“I am looking for raw reality. For that which can be almost uneasy or unnatural to look at. Because where it becomes vulnerable and uncomfortable, it touches me the most.”
The second edition of ‘Where the spirit meets the bone’
Also Available at:
The Tipi Bookshop, Brussels - Online and in store (SOLD OUT)
Athenaeum Boekhandel, Amsterdam - In store (SOLD OUT)
Foam, Amsterdam - In store
Ballon Rouge, Rotterdam - In store
Soon also at:
Brot bookshop, Bratislava - in store
Photo Museum ‘Huis Marseille’ Amsterdam
Le Bal Books, Parijs
