Barbara Coffy has worked with artistic creation and research structures (Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Usine C – Montreal Halles de Schaerbeek – Brussels) and has been working with choreographic artists over the last ten years.
At the same time, she is developing activities in the fields of research, writing and publishing. Since 2015, she has been part of the collective Rester.Étranger, a mutant, family-based form
that explores hospitality through the experience of writing and performance. In 2020, she founded maison trouble, an artistic support tool and publishing house conceived at the crossroads of stage, writing and performance.
Arsène Marquis
Writing and dramaturgy collaborator, general tinkerer. A jack of all trades because everything interests me, my practice ranges from photography, writing, reading and rereading science fiction, to coordinating projects. In 2019, I co-created the FACT festival, a festival dedicated to connecting and empowering the work of trans artists from Europe and Latin America. Today, I live and work in the wetlands of southern France.
Louise Rustan
Trained in lighting design at ENSATT, I learned mostly from and with my peers, friends, and reading. I quickly abandoned theater for dance, performance, and hybrid forms. I see lighting design as a constant interaction between my own partial view and that of the team, to define the atmosphere or atmospheres of reception/visibility/legibility of the piece in progress, taking into account the context of reception and that within the team. I like to work with saturated color and the behavior of light as something organic and sometimes independent.
I sometimes work in a creative partnership with Agathe Geoffroy for the choreographer Marinette Dozeville. I assisted and then took over the lighting design from my friend Annie Leuridan, mainly for Nina Santes‘ pieces. I worked in theater creation before branching out: for Groupe T!, Lucile Lacaze, and sometimes still with Le Pépin or Nachepa. In the coming months, I will be working in dance and performance with Eva Aubigny, Lionel Bègue, Nina Santes, Marinette Dozeville, and Maïra De Oliveira Aggio.
Originally from Recife, Brazil, and living in France since 2013, Calixto Neto trained in theater at the Federal University of Pernambuco, then in dance at the Groupe Experimental de Danse before taking the master’s degree in choreography ex.e.r.ce, at the CCN of Montpellier. During his studies, he created the solo petites explosions as well as the duet Pipoca, with Bruno Freire. oh!rage, his second solo, gives visibility to minority bodies and identities and is interested in “peripheral” dances, on the fringe of institutional circuits. Member of Lia Rodrigues’ company from 2007 to 2013, Calixto Neto is also a performer in the creations of Anne Collod, Mette Ingvartsen, Eve Magot or Luiz de Abreu whose famous piece O Samba do Crioulo Doido he will perform again in 2020, as part of the Panorama festival at the CN D in Pantin. Again in 2020, he directed the films O Samba do Crioulo Doido: Rule and Compass and Pro Futuro Quilombo. In 2021 he creates Outrar in collaboration with Lia Rodrigues and Feijoada, his first group piece.
Performer, choreographer and singer of funk Sapatão, Luara Learth Moreira trained at the University of Brasilia and Forum Dança in Lisbon and at the Master EXERCE, ICI-CCN Montpellier. Her work is inscribed in a lesbian, racialized, anti-colonial perspective of the body that intends to activate threats and fractures in the hegemonic representations of gender, race and the body.
Caroline K. Lavender
A protean performance artist, she trained her gaze in fine arts, her posture in striptease and combat sports. Through dance and visual arts, she crosses the codes of eroticism to compose a language of the sensitive, the vulnerable and the powerful.
Soa de Muse
Burlesque ! Cabaret ! Singing ! Dancing! Soa de Muse is a hybrid and multifaceted creature aged ? Nobody really knows… All we know is that she destroys the patriarchy and does it with joy! With a theatrical flutter of her eyelashes, a nod of her head, a disdainful pout, a snap of her fingers, eyes in the sky, soa is also this wonderful nymph, a bit bitchy, who never looks at you except to tease you nicely and always with benevolence.
Bia Kaysel
Bia Kaysel is a Brazilian architect, scenographer and lighting designer. In France since 2014, she has been able to work with different artists and collectives. She is currently a partner of the company La Fronde by Nina Santes & Eve Magot, set designer of Grupo Barka in Rio de Janeiro, she coordinates the Fauvettes project in the Paris suburbs and collaborates with different dance and theatre companies. She has designed the lighting for Divine Cypher by Ana Pi and the new creations in progress by Nadia Beugré, Claire Lapeyre Mazerat, Magda Kakouche and others.
Choreographer, performer and visual artist, Pauline Brun plays with contexts and different mediums exploring the body with self-mockery and at the edge of the absurd. Trained at the Nice Conservatory, the Villa Arson, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and ex.e.r.ce at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, she deploys proposals between visual art and choreography. She presents her work of performances, installations and videos notably at the Centre George Pompidou, MAC VAL, Salon de Montrouge, MAMAC, La Station artist-run-space, CND. In 2018, she creates Scruffy shot, a duet with Jonas Chéreau, where she puts the white cube in the black box. In 2022, she created the solo Raide d’équerre at 3bisf for the Festival Parallèle where she uses low-fi effects to distort space and the body. As a performer or scenographer, she collaborates with Fanny De Chaillé and Philippe Ramette, Alain Buffard (reconstruction of Mauvais Genre), Pol Pi, Jule Flierl, Eve Magot, Nina Santes, Adaline Anobile, Jonas Chéreau, Antoine Cegarra, Gaëtan Rusquet…Currently, she is working on the creations Jardins, a group piece for public spaces, and Tie-Tool in collaboration with Marcos Simoes, which relies on misunderstanding as a choreographic and visual tool.
