This year is coming to an end, and as such, comes an irrepressible need to reflect on it—evidenced by the countless commemorative posts and playlists flourishing here and there. Overall, it has been a very good year, tiresome but thrilling, artistically and humanly rich.

Here is why

“My beautiful ideal is freedom, the right to express oneself for everyone, and for everyone the right to enjoy beautiful things.”

These words of Emma Goldman (1869-1940), anarchist, intellectual and feminist could be the leitmotif of all feminist struggles, both the question of the body and the need to regain control of it, to (re)find its freedom, is at the heart of any claim of these movements. It was pointed out to her that “it does not suit an agitator to dance (…) with such irresponsible abandon” when her only wish was simply to dance. Her ideal was also awkwardly paraphrased “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution.”

After a rather long period of uncertainty due to the health crisis - which is hopefully ending - , but which nevertheless has seen the creation of Silentium at the Bolshoi in 2020, I am pleased to announce three new productions for the 2022/23 season.

" Sometimes there's an obsession with technique that can kill your best impulses. But communicating with an art form means being vulnerable. Being imperfect. And most of the time this is much more interesting. Trust me." - Michael Baryshnikov

For the set design of my last creation with the Ballett am Rhein I used a photo that I specially shot to use in this particular scenery.

One if my biggest struggles as an independent choreographer - and surely the same as every aspiring freelancer - is getting some tangible responses to my wide-range-outreaching email applications.

Il m’a souvent été demandé de définir le style de ma chorégraphie, de mon propre langage chorégraphique.

C’est une question qui m’a toujours pris de court au début, et m’occupe encore et toujours l’esprit. De longs moments de réflexion passés à trouver une définition, une accroche - et puis me retrouver sans réponse la fois suivante.

Tout récemment, par exemple, on m’a demandé si le fait d’aimer les pointes n’était pas antinomique avec une approche plus moderne de la danse. Ou même sans aller trop loin, l’éternel débat chausson contre chaussettes, ce qui fait moderne ou pas. Spoiler - c’est souvent les chaussettes qui fait le danseur moderne; pour paraphraser le dicton.

Nouvelle résolution pour 2019!

Tous les mois, je publierai une pensée, une réflexion qui me tient à coeur d’exprimer.

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