Artist statement
I am a dancer and performance-maker. Born in France, I grew up in France and Portugal, and moved to Slovenia in 2009.
I was trained in classical dance since the age of 11, but later enrolled in contemporary dance education at CNDC d’Angers and CNN de Montpellier in France, where I studied with choreographers Gilbert Canova, Loic Touzé, Mathilde Monnier, Emmanuelle Huyn, Boris Charmatz, Jennifer Lacey, Simone Forti, Benoit Lachambre…
In 2000 I started my international career dancing for Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero Loic Touzé, Mustafa Kaplan & Fliz Sizanli, Antonija Livingstone & Heather Kravas, Yves-Noel Genod, Remy Heritier, Catherine Contour, Yasmine Hugonnet and others.
Since 2010 I am developing my own artistic work in Slovenia, mostly in tandem with musician Tomaž Grom, and as member of two performing collectives Via Negativa and Feminalz (Emanat). I also worked with local directors and choreographers Matija Ferlin, Maja Delak, Mala Kline, Teja Reba, Leja Jurišić, Bara Kolenc, Nataša Živković and filmmaker Ema Kugler with whom I have toured locally and internationally.
In 2013 I received the Ksenija Hribar Award for the best dancer in Slovenia. In the last years I have initiated four projects in the frame of a four-year cycle called Shift (produced by Via Negativa and Sploh). During this period the projects used various performative formats in order to detect systemic gaps in the social fields of health (2018), knowledge (2019), work (2020) and justice (2021). Shift was not conceived as a purpose to invent, but rather as the evidence of evident. We were interested in the potential of everyday life, using humor as a strong potential of thought. Ever since I settled as a performing artist in Slovenia, I have noticed how the transnational circulation of performances produced in the country, was almost unexisting, underdeveloped for the most of it. Moreover, I always found this to be quite problematic, specially given the fact that I consider that the quality of the works produced here, has nothing to envy to the quality of the works produced abroad that I came to witness and participate in as a performer, prior to my arrival in the country.