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I’ve always been inspired by things beyond myself. I love feeling small, at the bottom of a mountain, or swallowed up by the deep, sacred belly of a performance space. I like organising encounters, knowing that afterwards they will go well beyond me, because that’s what I’m looking for in my creations.

In my previous work, I opened up fragmented spaces, inspired by the many American circus rings, in which I encountered objects bigger than myself (the Donut, the stepladder, etc.). I’m now continuing this work by directly transforming the protagonist’s body, his relationship with gravity and his physicality. To do this, I continue to dip into a bank of prosthetic objects that complement the bodies.

These encounters give rise to sounds and silences: my approach is both musical and choreographic. I owe this to my culture of performance and experimental music. I invite the audience to join me in a quest for perception and sensations between a mosaic of movements and a symphony of sounds.

Creating a show is also, for me, a way of proposing narratives that open up imaginary worlds. It’s also a way of reappropriating certain masculinist and heroic myths. The very ones I’ve been running away from over the last few years. My acrobatic body, turned into a machine, had been confiscated by the circus. My movement work is a quest, seeking to move away from the codified domination of the apparatus by exploring contemporary physical alternatives. 

That’s where the work of choreographic composition interests me: staging the complexity of the situation, in a three-dimensional circus space, together with the artifices of theatre.

The sweat of my body will trace the path of my quest and its magnificent failures. Faced with an unknown aspirant … I accept that I may not understand everything and I watch the lava flow, all the way to the stars.

Photo credits: Alena Principe

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