Ex nihilo dance company

Ex nihilo dance company
Apparemment, ce qui ne se voit pas [Tunis, 2010]
Foreword
Ex Nihilo is a company that we direct around a shared desire:
to regard public space as the work place and the site for our
shows. Public space that we understand in all its richness and
dimensions: spatial, historical, social, poetic… public space, quite
simply as the other place for art? Each of our creations is envisaged in situ and is strongly linked to the space in which it will be
shown. The specific history of the site, the relationships that exist
there, its atmosphere, all this “enriches” our writings, nourish the
scenario and the set design of each one of them. We call these
encounters with such places: Amalgame(s). Both performances
and research, impregnated with feeling - ‘amal ‘al gam, the work
of union, in Arabic – some of these encounters have formed
shows that now figure in the company’s repertoire and are rebuilt every time they are shown… Others remain performances
linked uniquely to a specific location. A street, a wall for La plus
belle heure, a beach at low tide for Loin de Là, a village square
for Salida, the district of Belsunce for Projet Passants, the Frioul
Islands off the coast of Marseilles for Quarantaine, the crowd and
the individual for Trajets de vie, Trajets de ville… For every new
creation we wonder about the relationship with the public, playing
on the numerous details of proximity and of distance, attempting
upheaval always to completely change our position, that of the
spectator and his way of seeing at the same time. But we like
also to cross over some boundaries and continue our research on
stage – inside: the moving from one place for art to another, the
interplay between the public arena and the stage, is a distinctive
feature of our approach.
The dance of Ex Nihilo develops the relationship between the
dancers and their awareness of each other. It is a physical dance,
reactionary, spontaneous, but written with purpose – logical.
Movement is declared as being a way of “taking” a territory, or
rather, the dancers borrow a space for the duration of the work or
a show – a light, ephemeral appropriation which never excludes
the “other”, the passer-by, the spectator, the citizen…
Ubicado en Marsella, Ex Nihilo es una
compania coreografica llevada por
Anne Le Batard y Jean Antoine Bigot.
Tiene la voluntad de utilizar el espacio
publico como espacio de trabajo y de
representacion. Las relaciones entre
los hombres, la historia y la arquitectura de un lugar forman los limites de
sus creaciones. Ex nihilo privilegia el
contacto, la escucha, una danza reactiva a un entorno, espontanea; unos
movimientos que toman posesion de
un teritorio.
Una calle, una pared para «La plus
belle heure», una playa con bajamar
«Loin de Là», la plaza de un pueblo
para «Salida», el barrio de Belsunce
en Marsella «Projet Passants», una
callejuela para «Calle Obrapia #4» o
aun el vestigio de un antiguo hospital
para Quarantaine… para cada nueva
creacion, Ex Nihilo interoga su relacion con el publico, jugando con las
Anne Le Batard and Jean-Antoine Bigot
distancias y con la profundidad o bien
sobre la promiscuidad…
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Apparemment, ce qui ne se voit pas
Creation 2009-2012 | Marseille, Copenhague, Casablanca, Tunis…
à Casablanca et Tunis © Martine Derain
My body does not have a place, but it is of him that go out and who shine all the possible, real and utopian places.
Michel Foucault, Le corps utopique – Les hétérotopies. Editions Lignes, 2009.
We want to invert the process of our previous choreographies: work at first the dance upstream and secondly, provoke
a meeting of the dance with a place.
It is a question, in a double movement, of putting at stake the imagination and the reality: to create a dance and imagine
a place, form a mental image, a dreamed space where we would like to dance. Then search for this place in a city. Dance
in this real space, by joining its constraints, observe what it transforms, reveals, how it makes the dance resound… It is
the body of the dancer, the solo, the «smallest», the only and solitary body, that we want to confront to the «biggest», the
space of the multiple and the others, the big cities.
For what we look in the writing of these soloes, it is the birth of an inhabited character. The dancer is lived by an internal
state, bound to obsessions, to constraints, to desires. When this state is registered inside the body, the body movements
become clear and the dancer is ready to confront with various places, «to project» this inside in his environment.
For the dance as for the places, we fetch towards what, apparently, does not see itself, towards the «hidden» and what
is not allowed in the first blow of eye but shows itself by a thoughtful glance. The solo, and for the city, a research on
thresholds, inner courtyards, entrances, the passages, the dead ends, the spaces that are changing: what we see there
today will have disappeared maybe tomorrow, will have doubtless changed…
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La Compagnie Ex Nihilo est conventionnée par le Ministère de la culture et de la communication/Drac-Paca et par la Ville de
Marseille. Elle est soutenue par le Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, le Conseil régional Paca, l’Adami, CulturesFrance et
CulturesFrance/Ville de Marseille. Elle reçoit des soutiens spécifiques pour chacune de ses créations :
Co-production Apparemment, ce qui ne se voit pas : Ballet National de Marseille ; CCN du Val-de-Marne ; Ateliers Frappaz ;
Tridanse ; Copenhague International Theatre/Metropolis Festival ; Institut Français de Coopération de Tunis ; Fondation Beaumarchais/SACD ; 2angles | Partenaires La Source du Lion, CasaMémoires, association Commune et AR2D-Meryem Jazouli à
Casablanca ; Musaq/Dream City à Tunis.
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Nal Boa [look at me]
For 8 dancers | creation 2010 - France/South Korea
Séoul, septembre 2010 © ex nihilo
Marseille/Seoul… Two disproportionate cities : Seoul and its urban area - about 23 million inhabitants, and Marseille,
1,5 millions, but two ports : that of Seoul, Incheon, central port of Asia opened on 5 oceans and Marseille, first port
of France and the Mediterranean Sea, opened on the Maghreb and Africa : it is between these two cities-ports,
cities of transit, exchanges, transformations that we register the cooperation project developed here.
For the Hanmadang Festival of Gwacheon 2008, we «integrated»six Korean dancers into the creation 2007 of the
Company, Trajets de Ville, following a one week workshop. A meeting intense, surprising and far too short ! The
public success of Trajets de Vie Trajets de Ville encouraged Gwancheon Hanmandang Festival has to pursue the
experience by working on a creation associating from the beginning Korean dancers and Ex Nihilo.
With Trajets de Ville, we had staged the anonymous crowd, which welcomes or absorbs the individual (or sometimes rejects him), which lets appear individualities but does not appear under the aspect of a group aware of its
unity. With Nal Boa, we continue on these connections of the individual to the group, this time around the construction of a group, asserting itself for itself and in front of other. By looking quite particularly there, where the «I» is in
a permanent interaction, reaction, agreement or conflict with the group… We wish to speak about what gathers (or
divide) individuals any various under common codes and distinguishing features…
The show takes place along a wall. We need to lean the show there and making it develop at once a specific
choreographic material and the intense imagination which it offers us:
The wall as the refuge, to lean, to take some distance and to confront with itself.
A wall to remember itself, remember, take in itself.
Be back in the wall, forced, trapped, more not be able tomove, jump by top, rebel.
Back in the wall, to face, to face the present.
The dead end.
The border…
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Creation 30th of September 2010 in Gwacheon Hanmadang Festival | Corealisation Project Wae | Supported by Le Parapluie-Centre international de création artistique à Aurillac, Gwacheon Hanmadang Festival, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Seoul
Foundation for Arts and Culture, CulturesFrance/Ville de Marseille & ADAMI. | Partners Seoul Arts Foundation, Seoul Artspace
Mullae, Centre Culturel Français Séoul, Extrapole
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If 3 = 3
trio | creation 2010 | 20 mins
In Niort © Maxime Dejoux-Guidot
A wall to store and settle.
Three boards against the wall.
Three persons play without rivalry, in parallel but without loneliness.
A game of relationship with the other one, the object, to the plan.
They look for their place(square) between these objects, to exist with them against the wall. In the mixture and
the shocks, they look for the solution of the equation.
An exchange of equality…
An equation under condition…
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Co-production: Les éclats chorégraphiques de La Rochelle (Residence) | Supported by Karwan, within the framework of the
artistic actions of the Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône and by the Conseil régional Poitou-Charentes
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Assemblements
duet | creation 2009 | 20 mins
© Martine Derain
«ASSEMBLEMENT, n.
The word is old, and it is a pity: it would be useful; because assembly and assembled mean things or persons. We
have no word to express the action to assemble; Malherbe said:
It is in the assemblement of these celestial couples,
That if our past troubles left some rests,
They go of the whole to finish.»
Jean-François Féraud
Dictionnaire critique de la langue française (Marseille, Mossy 1787-1788 - Page A173a)
Our duet answers the rules of the game put by Lieux Publics called Marché commun, to create a short shape for
a space of the most complex: the market, the place of the business, the exchange… We invest the time of the
deinstallation, not exactly the end of the market but the moment when the square empties, where the stakes in the
sale calm down, where the gleaners arrive, the moment of the rests. Two characters will settle down in this chaotic
moment, between two, to play in turn the meeting and the exchange.
Clothes, objects, things, heaps, here…
To find a common route…
I do not know.
Assemblements was created in studio (just the once will not hurt!) in March 2009, every representation is now the
opportunity to confront it with the context, to model it, to decompose and to recompose it…
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A commissioned work : Ateliers Frappaz, Centre métropolitain des arts urbains & Centre chorégraphique national de
Rillieux-la-Pape, in the frame of the Danse/Espace public méditerralpin project [associating Lieux Publics – Centre national de
création in Marseille; Les Hivernales – Centre de développement chorégraphique in Avignon ; Les Ateliers Frappaz, Le Centre
chorégraphique de Rillieux-la-Pape (Maguy Marin), Festival Corpi Urbani in Genova, Festival Teatro a Corte – Fondazione Teatro
Piemonte Europa, Interplay & C’era l’Acca in Turin] | Supported by Kelemenis & Cie, Cie Beau Geste-Dominique Boivin.
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Trajets de Vie Trajets de Ville
A performance for 4 dancers | outside, 2 hrs
& a choreography for 10 dancers | outside, 55 mins
© Henry Krul
« Trajets de Vie : on benches, or all around, in the middle of the passage of the pedestrians, the cars, the buses,
four solitudes sketch a sometimes acrobatic gesticulation, sometimes at the edge of the invisible : poetic gasps
where the crackling of a radio will go out of a basket, where sheets of newspapers will stick on the face as a braggart’s mask, where colored capsules of bottle scatter as a rain of childhood.
Trajets de Ville constitutes the other hillside. A hostility charges the atmosphere. An immense inhuman space
widens in this crowd where the men, the women, cross themselves without seeing each other, by ignoring. Worse
still : they crowd, collide, assault, either the love bursts. Duets come out hardly : fragments of a virile fight or a
friendship, a sensualism and a rivalry mixed in a tango souvenir ? This is the opposite of all for which we could
expect from a contemporary show (nothing of hightech, any video, just this old rock tone, and these old bodies
which are ours, close to the deterioration), but who so speak to us about what we are today. »
Paul-Emmanuel Odin
Our project was supported by IN SITU/European network for artistic creation in public areas. A specific version has
been created in this context (seven dancers, coming from different european countries, play Trajets de ville with
the ten Ex Nihilo dancers and a local musician is invited to play live with our musician). Please, contact us if you are
interested by this version. Videos and photographs are available on our website : www.exnihilodanse.com.
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Coproduction In Situ/réseau européen pour la création artistique en espace public financé avec le soutien de la Commission
européenne; CNAR(s) L’Atelier 231/Sotteville-lès-Rouen, L’Abattoir/Chalon-sur-Saône et Pronomade(s)/Encausse-les-Thermes;
Théâtre Huis a/d Werf/Utrecht (Pays-Bas); CCN(s) de Rillieux-la-Pape et de Caen; Association la Fonderie/Blangy-sur-Bresle |
Supported by L’Usine/Tournefeuille; la Ville de Tournefeuille; Festival Mes de Dansa/La Espiral/Séville (Espagne); Kelemenis &
Cie.
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Passants
For 5 dancers | inside,1 hr 15 mins
© Ex Nihilo, Christophe Le Blay
Passants is a set designed show/installation which mixes dance, music and video. The presentation space is
shared by the spectators, dancers, technicians and the musician. The ground is entirely covered with cardboard
boxes, light bulbs hung from the ceiling give off a soft light, radios pour out their daily dose of news, mirrors placed
here and there recall an intimate space, clothing hung off the walls seem to be displayed as if for sale.
Video and Super 8mm images projected directly onto the walls or the sides of the boxes witnessing the improvisations performed by the dancers in the streets of Belsunce or the Havana over several months. Aware of the sound
and visual aspects of the atmosphere, the spectators will let go, be brought forward and stopped by the dancers
who insinuate themselves among them, approach until they almost touch them, move off, incongruous, strange
and disturbing. Nothing is fixed, the spectator is thus an actor in his own right, free to place himself, to determine
his own point of view, his own perspective.
Passants was created during a 6 months residency in Belsunce, a popular district of our town, Marseilles, accepting
the hospitality of an art center devoted to contemporary art : La Compagnie [http://www.la-compagnie.org]. Throughout this period we were present daily, dancing in the streets, at different times of the day from early morning to
nightfall. This experience was continued in the streets of Regla in the Havana, in Beirut and in the Praga district of
Warsaw.Passants bears witness to the long periods spent dancing in the streets, talks of the encounters, the histories of men and women. We have developed a concrete dance, carnal, physical, committed, that also exposes the
sanitization of bodies and everyday social relationships.
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Coproduction CCN de Rillieux-La-Pape; CNAR l’Atelier 231/Sotteville-lès-Rouen; La Compagnie, Marseille; Le Fourneau,
fabrique des arts de la rue de Bretagne | Supported by 3bisF; La Compagnie; Dansem.
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Calle Obrapia #4
For 5 dancers | outside, 30 mins
© G. Mathieu
Calle Obrapia #4 was generated by the research we had in Belsunce, described above, and continued n Beirut, Warsaw and Cuba, where Calle Obrapia was created for the Ciudad en Movimiento festival of the Old Havana.
A narrow street, its pavements, the walls of its houses: a space to discover, to take over.
Three women and two men take possession of a space.
Each one has their own history, their own identity, the need for recognition. Wandering, waiting and hope are some
of the many postures and feelings that pass between them.
They dance with the walls, the ground, the pavements. Bodies cross over, interlace, collide, embrace, speak to
each other.
Are they passing by, in transit or in exile?
From time to time some snatches of music break the silence and the voices of transistor radios allow us to hear
bits and pieces of current affairs, music and multi-coloured voices.
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Salida
For 6 dancers & 2 musicians | inside or outside, 55 mins
Inside or outside © Martine Derain, Gerard Roos
Salida was inspired by a film by Danielle Bertotto, Le bal d’Yvonne. The theme underpinning her movie was the relationship between dance and the image, a dance created for the camera, a camera that dances and which, while
moving around the bodies «reveals» them. Thus we developed choreographic material working from a multitude
of viewpoints/spectators and a language written in a circular space. The show could thus be seen from all sides
as in a circus.
We worked on the duo, the couple, inspired by a two-fold inspiration. The atmosphere of village balls when at the
end of the night, the intoxication and the fatigue led to the abandoning and liberating of inhibitions, when the deep
wounds and ruptures that have marked the bodies, the faces and the relationships to others appear. One touches
the other person, clings to them, without restraint and without embarrassment.
And, for the dance : the tango, milongas, the entwining of legs in this dance by the Argentinian couple, holding
body to body, restrained. The tango as an inspiration, yet we don’t wish to learn the rules but prefer to reconstruct
the play between the couple. We moved towards the whirlwind, dizzy, desperately hanging on. Men and women
play at seduction, to love and not be mislead, they leave and then find themselves again. The ball, is music, played
live, two musicians lead the dancers just as they accompany them.
Salida chose a public space, a public ball room or a field in the countryside for the evening of a ball, with a sawdust
covered floor, a garland of lights, a few chairs for the decor, an electric guitar and a drum kit to lead the dance. The
spectators of this improvised fête encircle the dancers…
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Loin de là
For 6 dancers and 2 musicians | outside, 50 mins
Port Saint-Louis du Rhône © Martine Derain
Loin de là was created on the isle of Terschelling off the coast of Holland and placed at slack water, that brief
moment when the tide is stationary, time in suspension, a breathe, at that moment between the tide coming in
and going out. The site of the representation is infinite, as far as one can see. The dancers are tiny people lost in
the immensity of space. As if coming from nowhere, they tell a story of the wind, to the sound of an accordion, the
horizon, the wait for the return from sea, treasures brought up by the tide. Created on an isle, Loin de là can also
be shown in town, in a car park or a public space.
Street or beach : the largest setting possible: the earth.
No costumes but clothing : ordinary people.
They arrive: some from the depth of the horizon.
Climbing onto an oil drum the better to see into the distance
– or to embrace the air more easily.
Bodies knotted one to the other at a distance.
Naked and empty space peopled with absence, except for these few details, a few chairs left as signs of some
previous presence, of the beginning of a human community.
Town or nature, one not only runs, or turns, or gesticulates, or jumps on this same earth, but on the same horizon
where bodies appear so small as to disappear into infinity.
A human festival, a person to person of that which is always the first and the last, friendship and love, whose
feelings little by little disturb in a soundless banter, a few couples search and tease each other to the background
music of an accordion.
Then, as if a tide of sound had imperceptibly covered all the land right up to us, we are submerged by the physical
proximity of those who have advanced so closely : all their movements are of falling, horizontal momentum, rubbing,
rolling in the sand or on the tarmac.
If these bodies had never been so close to the ground, they have become, in someway, tears and flames/tearful
and on fire – a red dress in the wind.
Paul-Emmanuel Odin
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Some notes on the company
Trajets de Vie Trajets de Ville, Marrakeck, Séoul © Martine Derain
Ex Nihilo is a contemporary dance company created in 1993, that chooses:
- To create choreographies in situ outdoor (public places or natural spaces) and indoor.
- To create with the others (musicians, film-makers, visual artists, video directors…).
- To develop specific projects in connection with a structure, a territory, a public.
- To emphasize the broadcasting of its work by maintaining an alive repertoire: an average of 50 dates a year (half on the
last creation Trajets de Vie Trajets de Ville, other half on the repertoire, consisted today of 8 rooms plays among which very
active 6).
- To pass on its research with all the public: Master-Class in Seoul Art Center; formation of 3rd cycle at the University of
Lyon: workshops Body/movement with the cooperation of ECM/ZINC within the framework of the network RAMI; meetings
around the creation in public place (Metropolis/Copenhagen, HorsLesMurs in Paris, professional artistic Meetings of Toulon)
and of co-creations abroad (French-Korean creation, cooperation for the tours abroad).
- To pass on its practice: educational actions in schools and high schools (General Council 13 and Drac Haute-Normandie);
training courses within the framework of the in-service training of the Department of Education; Experimental School of
Dance in Salzburg; daily Training of the company opened to the public during every residence of creation and in a more
regular way in Marseille in the Studio Kelemenis…
Ex Nihilo is supported for its creations and programmed by:
· the institutional dance network:
- on a regional level: Dansem (Marseille 1999, 2001 & 2003 ); Festival de Marseille 2008; Théâtre en Dracénie 2007; Danse
en Avril in Aubagne (2007 & 2009); Ballet National de Marseille 2010…
- in France: Quartz, scène nationale de Brest (Festival des Antipodes 2004 & 2008); Pôle Sud, Nouvelles Strasbourg
Danse 2008; Seine de Danse 2009; Le Temps d’aimer in Biarritz 2009…
- international: Festival Tanzdanzen in Greiswald, Germany; Santos and Sao Paulo (Brazil) by the Sesc network; Festivals
of Sabadell and Terrassa in Spain…
. by festivals and multidisciplinary structures:
- on a regional level: Festival Pazzapas/Lieux Publics-Le Merlan in Marseille; 3 Bis F in Aix-en-Provence…
- in France: Scènes Nationales Le Fanal-St Nazaire, Le Cratère-Alès…
- international: network of the Villes qui dansent (Corpi Urbani/Gênes, Eupen-Liège in Belgium, Ciudad in movimiento/
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Havana Cuba, Greenwich and Docksland Festival/Londres, Mes de Danza/Seville, Dies de Danza/Barcelona, Mudanzas/
Carthagène festival); Huis a/d Werf/Utrecht in the Netherlands; festival of Bat Yam (Israel) …
. and by the network of «arts de la rue»:
- region : Les Siacreries in Carros; Festival Chaud Dehors and Danse en Avril in Aubagne; L’année des 13 Lunes (CG13Lieux Publics); La Folle Histoire de la rue (CG13-Karwan); Lieux Publics-Festival Small is beautiful…
- in France: Main street festivals as Chalon dans la rue; Les Tombées de la Nuit in Rennes; Vivacité in Sotteville-lèsRouen; Festival Furies in Chalon en Champagne; Danse en Ville in Amiens; Aurillac…
- international: IN SITU network (European support for the creation in public space directed by Lieux Publics (of which
are partner: Merchant City Festival-GB; Strada-Autriche, TAC-Valladolid; Atelier 231 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen and Oerol
Festival in tne Netherlands) for the creation 2007; Theater Op de Markt in Belgium; Hanmadang Festival, South Korea;
Awaln’art festival in Marrakesh in 2008; Tarrega festival in Spain…
• Collaborations/Co-productions
Ex Nihilo is also supported for some of its creations by two Centres Chorégraphiques Nationaux (Rilleux-la-Pape/Maguy
Marin on 2004 and 2006, Caen/Fattoumi-Lamoureux 2006 with Accueils-Studio); by the Company Kelemenis («Artists’
Question, questions of dance», rehearsals, training and for the creation 2009, by the National Ballet of Marseille and
Frappaz studios.
· Ex Nihilo was associated with the artist studio The Company (visual arts) for a project on the district Belsunce (20012002).
· Ex Nihilo was also «associated artist» of Atelier 231 from 2005 till 2006.
· The company was supported for the production of its creations by the network of the National Centres of «arts de la
rue» (Le Fourneau in Brest, Pronomades/Encausses-les-thermes, L’abattoir/Châlon-sur-saône, Atelier 231/Sotteville-lèsrouen, L’Usine/Tournefeuille) and for the creation 2009, by Studios Frappaz in Villeurbanne.
· For its international tours, the company is supported by CULTURESFRANCE and the cultural services of Embassies
(Korea, Morocco, Poland, Brazil, Havana).
• Public partners
Ex Nihilo is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication/DRAC-PACA, the City of Marseille, the General
Council of Bouches-du-Rhône, the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the ADAM, the Spedidam and the SACD.
• Filmography
Rue des Petites Maries, Laurence Rebouillon | super 8 | 12’ | 2004
West Point, Laurence Rebouillon | Super 8 et 16 mm | 57’ | 2008
TVTV, Jean-Antoine Bigot/Martine Derain/Anne Le Batard | vidéo | 28’ | 2009
Quarantaine au Frioul
Salida, Par les Villages
Loin de là, à Port Saint Louis
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The choreographers
Assemblements, by Anne Le Batard et Jean-Antoine Bigot, 2009 © Martine Derain
Anne Le Batard
She developed her through the various courses followed, notably with Hervé Diasnas, Jackie Taffanel, Myriam
Berns, Frey Faust, Gérard Gourdot and Hubert Godart in kinésiologie. Dancer with Karin Vyncke’s company in
Brussells from 1996 to 1999, then in L est là by Georges Appaix, with La Liseuse company.
She co-founded Ex Nihilo in 1993, and took over the artistic direction with Jean-Antoine Bigot in 2000.
It is for this unique form of dance in relation to natural or public spaces that she has been invited to collaborate
with other companies, such as Ilotopie for their creation Narcisse guette or with ECM/Zinc/Friche de la Belle de
mai, where shes’ co-directing a workshop questioning the body, multi-media and performance.
Obtaining the certification to teach contemporary dance in 1995, she began developing artistic workshops in
schools and universities, for amateurs and professionals. Working in close collaboration with Jean-Antoine Bigot,
she runs various workshops, courses, training sessions that relate the ‘dance’ to the public space, the relationship
with the environment whatever it might be and the relationship to the ‘other’, dancer/partner or public/passer-by.
Jean-Antoine Bigot
He discovered dance while studying at UFRAPS Paris V thanks to Françoise Lamouche and Claude Philippi and
continued his training following courses led by Pierre Doussaint, Hervé Diasnas, Catherine Diverrès, Thierry Baë,
Bernardo Montet, Jean Gaudin, the company Roc in Linchen, Claude Brumachon and Jacques Patarozzi.
Le Vide, the first solo he created, selected for the Val de Marne Biennial. In 1992 he created a duo with Bruno
Pradet. From this collaboration was born the Pied Gauche group. In 1997 he joined Ex Nihilo for several of their
projects and became the artistic director of the company with Anne Le Batard in 2000.
Alongside these personal projects he continues his career as a dancer, from 1994 to 1997 with Karin Vyncke from
1993 to 2001 with Hela Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux (Miroir aux alouettes, Asile poétique, Wasla, Stena, Les
souffles de vie).
He began to teach dance within the framework of the residences of the companies Fattoumi-Lamoureux and Le
Pied Gauche in secondary schools and universities as well as with amateur and professional dancers. His career
as a dancer, within the framework of the courses run with Ex Nihilo which accentuate the importance of the
presence, the density and the interpretative skills of the dancer, has led him to develop the physical aspects of
dance as well as the relationships within a duo or within a group.
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