REST in Paris is a summary of dance experiences and explorations of site in the urban nature and culture of the French capital, and into the nature of collaboration and togetherness of the participants. It culminated in a performance in May 2025, directed by Jude Walton and shown at the Cinemorphe theatre company in Paris. A kind of prism and a starting point for new cycles, the theme drifts from urban nature to art, to philosophy and finally to love, as expressed and lived through dance. The book, less a documentation than a parallel reworking of the project in words and images, portrays and discovers aspects of this making process.

Markus A. Castor is research director at the German Centre for Art History in Paris. He studied Art History, Classical Archaeology and Philosophy at the universities of Trier, Freiburg i. Br. and Constance. Assistant Professor at Freiburg University, Researcher of the Department of Italian Studies at the Technical University of Dresden he taught Art History at several universities in Germany and Paris, especially on modern times. His work focusses on arts and architecture of the Ancien Regime, the historiography of ancient afterlife and proto-art history in the age of Enlightenment. One aspect of his work is the question of the physical prerequisites of art historical work and the relationship of word and image from a phenomenological perspective.