As a dance and performance artist, dancer, creator, researcher and teacher, I am immersed in artistic practices and behaviors that can put into question and dialogue with different contexts and create new ones. I ask myself what these moving bodies are, what they observe and how they can challenge their expressive limits. What can we translate or narrate through dance and how can dance dialogue with its context?

 

For me, bodies as material, symbolic and political spaces are a place to explore, with all their poetic and disruptive power, with all their potential for movement and desire. Bodies are multiple and paradoxical entities that can articulate themselves in a context in the making and full of exchange of information. It is foremost from this perspective that I explore dance, always testing what this dance can do, each time. I thus develop a constantly changing definition of dance, with each trial or performance, and above all through the interaction with and for others.

 

I like to think of the stage as a complex and porous event allowing multiple formats and mechanisms, creating critical links with spectators and the spaces where everything takes place.

 

In my current research I focus on collaborative creation processes. I like to experiment and think how to work in a network, how to create an exchange with others through dance experiences and how to create shifts, moving the boundaries of disciplines. I am interested in the possibilities of action and encounter through dance.

 

I see dance practice as part of our daily experiences, both for creation and teaching. I try to imagine which actions and affections could be used in other contexts and be translated through different types of materials, composing works organizing interests and curiosities, starting with the existing to create new possibilities, using intuitions and imagination to “force reality”.

 

I am interested in the notion of economics of materials/actions, recycling, appropriation (as in using materials in circulation and shared images) and the idea of a relational body in constant updating.

 

My creative productions use gestures, words and objects. Dances can be micro-poetic on the basis of apparently small, daily and extraordinary things. They can be spatial or biographic clippings, cuttings of movement, language and spaces that give bodies space. I am interested in productions by bodies : movements, words, fluids, thoughts, tissues, affects, contacts. I like playing with and giving hierarchy to relations.

 

Thinking about the modes of production, visibility and circulation of dance pieces or processes are also important to me, because they require ethical considerations about creative works, which in turn determine their characteristics.

 

I see teaching as a context-dependent practice that is by definition critical and can generate singular understandings. I try to see teaching as a platform, in the sense that information is shared horizontally and in a collaborative manner. Often, creative processes and teaching become one and that creates a powerful mix.