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Emilie Gallier is a choreographer researcher who lives in Leiden (The Netherlands). She recently completed her practice-as-research PhD from the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University), in which she develops the idea and practice of reading (documents/documentation) in and as performance (Reading in Performance, Lire en Spectacle) Beside her choreographic practice, Emilie works as a tutor for THIRD: 3rd cycle artistic research programme at DAS Graduate School Amsterdam. She publishes in peer-reviewed journals (a.o. Performance Research), and co-edits dance books (ongoing De Nieuwe Dansbibliotheek, Notebook Series). She is co-founder of Les Minieres in Normandy (France), at the intersection of regenerative agriculture and performing art practices. In 2022, Emilie Gallier joins the Erasmus+ project Extraordinary Dances (Dance and Handicap) with the Leiden-based group Domino.

Ricercatrice indipendente nel campo del teatro e della danza, antropologia, filosofia, mistica. Laureata al Dams con una tesi di carattere antropologico, ha frequentato la scuola di danza classica Academié Principesse Grace di Montecarlo, il Programma de Recherche et Composition Coreographique presso la Fondation Royaumont di Parigi, e il master in progettazione culturale presso Fondazione Fitzcarrardo. Ha modellato il suo percorso di autrice e performer attraverso creazioni originali principalmente in Italia, Francia e Svizzera (The Fish, Etude pour la Sainteté, Asfissia, Clara Falls in Love, La Bagarre, Tentativi Vergini di Oscenità, E20, E questo è, etc..).
Lavora come regista, e coreografa, interprete, autrice, danzatrice, performer, curatrice, organizzatrice, davanti e dietro le quinte nel campo della danza e teatro contemporaneo.
Nel 2015 con Carlotta Scioldo fonda il progetto Workspace Ricerca X, che cura fino al 2021.

Carlotta Scioldo is a researcher and consultant focusing on EU cultural policies. Through her professional and academic trajectory, she has acquired a multifaced view of the cultural and creative sector in Europe. Her fundamental drive is to bridge the communication gap between the cultural sector and policymaking, ensuring that the functioning and aspirations of the artistic field are effectively conveyed. With this motivation, she has worked as dance dramaturg, joined the Creative Europe Unit at EACEA, and served as Network Manager and Policy Advisor the European Dancehouse Network.

Carlotta completed her Ph.D. on how European Transnational Networks operate in the Cultural Sector at DIST the Interfaculty Department of the University and Polytechnic of Turin, and she was visiting researcher at the UCL’s Public Policy Department. Her work questions the political and empirical implications of Transnational Networks in the EU’s cultural sphere and the external dimension. Her doctoral dissertation has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2023 ENCATC Award.
She holds two master’s degrees, the first in Theater Studies from IUAV in Venice, the second in Cultural Projects for Development from ITC-ILO and UNESCO Centre in Turin. Carlotta’s expertise was also acknowledged through a visiting fellowship at New York University.

In 2015, together with Erika Di Crescenzo, she founded Workspace Ricerca X. She has been curating the project until 2018.

Where does the counterpoint, the tic, the slip, the deception, the illusion, the hallucination fit into choreographic writing?
My research is in the small event that triggers a change or generates a question, it is in the exchanged word, the unexpected gesture… what happens when these fragments of action multiply?
Starting from an almost mimetic work of daily actions, my research has led me to a deconstruction of the gesture, which I would like to lead to exasperation, inserting a crescendo of fragments and “parasitic” actions that, through a work on rhythm and repetition, perhaps become less and less recognisable, depriving it of its original meaning and in which the spectator can find his own symbolism and vision.

Choreographer, Performer and Yoga Teacher.
Her choreographic practice focuses on precise and time-dilated movements that lead to the emergence of unexpected images. Her work on the body between immobility and mobility explores the dichotomy between subject and object, sculpture and moving image, and highlights the relationship between body and space.
The performative intervention dialogues with and relates to the given space. The objects, costumes and sounds used on stage are things that are given a meaning, a symbolic value; during the performance the things and their value are brought to light or removed from the viewer’s eye. The peculiar contradictions of the human figure, made up of unexpected events, drama and irony, are the basis of his poetics.
She a degree in garden architecture and landscaping. She worked as a dancer for Lucia Latour’s company Altroteatro, founded the company Anagrama (2009-14) and has collaborated with artists and choreographers over the years. During her studies she got in touch with artists such as Romeo Castellucci, Yasmine Hugonnet and Silvia Rampelli.
She is currently working on the choreographic project FOLA, divided into two chapters (Fola Chapter 1 | Gherminella Chapter 2) with the support of the Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze and MAD_Murate Art District in Florence.

This performance research departs from the post-French Revolution gatherings known as “Balls of Victims” (real or imagined), in which descendants of guillotined parents recreated their trauma through social dances. Reflecting on this historical example, I explore similar historical and contemporary precedents in mourning, initiation ceremonies, and protest culture. My performance navigates the junction of collective imagination and memory, blending physical reenactments with imagined archives across various mediums (text, sound, moving image) within the genre of choreographic mockumentary.

Polina Fenko, born in 1997 in Saint-Petersburg, is an emerging dance artist and dramaturg with a base spanning Amsterdam and Berlin. She holds an MA in Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Dramaturgy from Utrecht University and a dual BA in Art History from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Saint-Petersburg State University and Bard College, New York).

In her performances and installations, she works with diverse forms of documents (like breathing scores, bodily imprints, dreams) that create liminal spaces of plural bodily realities through methods like infusion, overlay, juxtaposition, and disamalgamation. Themes include catastrophic thinking, fractal memory as bodily memory, and relational bodies shaped by personal and collective memories.

As a dance artist, Polina explores the format of social choreography that deals with exploration of alternative forms of coexistence and ways of relating to each other, while reimagining the notion of the social. In Amsterdam, she founded an Instant Composition Collective uniting performers, musicians, and interdisciplinary artists in experimenting with instant composition as both method and artistic practice within collective improvisation.
Driven by an interest in alternative forms of knowledge production she organises multidisciplinary laboratories that create spaces for experiential education and discussions in other than verbal types of communication. To mention just a few: Microurbanism and Microchoreography, Vulnerability and risk taking in instant Composition, On Minor Gesture and Microperception.

Category: Artist

Emilie Gallier

Francesco Dalmasso

Ambra Pittoni

Elisa D’Amico

Andrea Macchia

Erika Di Crescenzo

Carlotta Scioldo

Adriana Borriello

Miranda Secondari

Polina Fenko