After training in ballet and contemporary dance, Frédéric Pouillaude has been Associate Professor in philosophy at Sorbonne-University. He is now Professor of aesthetics at Aix-Marseille University. He has published Le Désœuvrement chorégraphique (Paris, Vrin 2009) (Unworking Choreography, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017) and Représentations factuelles (Paris, Cerf, 2020).