DANCER

Dance has always been part of my life. From ballet, which I started at the age of 6 and practiced for 17 years, to African and contemporary dance, improvisation, composition, 5 Rhythms Movements…
I need to dance almost as much as I need to breathe. If I don’t dance, I miss it so much I feel like I’m shrinking inside. Dance is joy, health, therapy, community and communion, spirituality, dance is life.
I learned the technique, and then I undid it. I danced on my toes, then went back down to Earth. I was young and jumping around, and then I got older and found another way to connect to energy. I learned about other people’s movements and then created my own. The more I do and practice, the more I find my own vocabulary, my own language, my own spirit, my own dancer.
I want to dance again and again and forever. To die dancing would be a beautiful death.

the people I danced or trained with (dance):
Anne Martin and Janet Panetta (Pina Bausch company) – Yann Lheureux (FR) – Seydou Boro (BF) – Ballets C de la B (BE) – Mario Garcia Saez (ES) – Odile Duboc (FR) – Mark Tompkins & Vincent Mantsoé (FR) – Marcelo Evelin (ARG)- Rasmus Ölme (SE) – Lisbeth Gruwez (Yann Fabre company, BE) – Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion (UK+IT)

other people I performed or trained with (Performance & Live Art):
FrankoB (UK) – Vest&Page (GE) – Marilyn Arsem (US) – Felix Ruckert (GE) – Juan Navarro (Rodrigo Garcia company, ES+FR) – Laurent Berger (FR) – Gareth Cutter & Paul HUGHES (UK) – Mathieu Hocquemiller (FR) – Jill Greenhalgh & Suzon Fuchs (UK+AUS) – Pedagogues Moscow’s GITIS – Mladen Materic – Viviane de Muynck – Jean-Michel Rabeux