The following message was posted to: dance-tech Dear all, Sorry to interfer, but I have to be honest and clear regarding Monaco Dance Forum and last e-mail sent by Jean-Marc Matos. The real team who has been efficiently working on it for five years desserves it. The point is that the main concept of the Monaco Forum is that it doesn't belong to anybody, not even to Jean-Marc. This event has to be build by the participants themselselves and no one can assume it as a "creator", or, if he does, it's clear that he never understood the concept. That's why I take the opportunity to give some details, even if annoying. To definitly explain the organisation and make clear that the personal and egoistic position of some people have nothing to do with the spirit of this event. As director of Monaco Dance Forum, I have been asked in 1998 to think about a new concept for dance adapted to a new location being buildt in Monaco: the Grimaldi Forum. I proposed this concept gathering around dance all kind of arts forms extensions being connected to dance (multimedia, audiovisual, photography, touring, job etc...). What is not new. The difference is that the governbement gave me the real financial means to do something. In 1998, I asked Philippe Baudelot to make the concept of the multimedia and audiovisual activities, regarding his knowhow on this field. Philippe defined the whole sector and put on the call for proposal as well as the contents of the panels for the first edition. He did it to help, knowing that he was not available to go on with us this year and fixed everything. So I asked Jean-Marc Matos to follow up the project with me and check the results of the call for proposal. What he did and more he asked me to schedule one of his performances within our general performances program. What I did, I assyme it, . Not more. I don't have to tell more about this, except that Jean-Marc never initiated anything. I can't imagine anyone crying for being the first in Monaco Dance Forum, since it has no sense within this event which aims to be a gathering of ideas, proposals and projects. I don't feel confortable in writing myself but I think necessary to prevent any tentative to master anything on this event. We try to be "clever" tools to build someting together. That's all and I hope too personal requests regarding this particular event will stop! Thanks to all of you who participated in last Monaco Dance Forum. I know that everything whas not perfect but I can ensure that, with your help, we will manage to do more. Dominique Passet General Manager Monaco Dance Forum ---------------------------------------- The Dance-Tech mailing list has recently moved to a new address. To post a message, send email to dance-tech@dancetechnology.org. To unsubscribe, send email to lists@dancetechnology.org, with the words "unsubscribe dance-tech" in the message body. ----------------------------------------
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