Cindy Van Acker

After a classical training, Cindy Van Acker danced with the Ballet Royal de Flandres and at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva, before making her mark in the world of contemporary dance. She has created her own pieces since 1994 and founded the Company Greffe in 2002 on the occasion of the premiere of Corps 00:00, for which she earned international recognition. Her career has been marked by collaborations with Myriam Gourfink and Romeo Castellucci. Cindy Van Acker was responsible for the bodily training of future actors at the Haute École des Arts de la Scène, La Manufacture, in Lausanne from 2006 to 2010. In 2017, she created Elementen III — Blazing Wreck for the dancers of the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre of Geneva, and Speechless Voices in 2018.

Since 2003, Cindy Van Acker has written tailormade scores for some of her creations. For Score Conductor (2012), she is exhibiting these scores while creating concrete objects that can materialise them other than by motion. They then become aids to inspire different effects, imposing no limit as to their form of expression. For this workshop, she aims to submit her scores to the participants and analyse them together, so that everyone can then explore them, making of them a personal composition: motion, text, sound, visual composition…, then from these different propositions to produce a group experience.