Sophie Perez

with Xavier Boussiron

After graduating from the École Supérieure des Arts et Techniques (ESAT) in 1990, Sophie Perez was nominated for a residency the next year at the Villa Médicis as a scenographer. Her work on atypical places and texts, which she then probes in the theatre, began at this time. Sophie Perez has produced the scenography for several stage productions by Frédéric Bélier-Garcia. She founded the Compagnie du Zerep in 1997 and started directing shows in which styles and genres are intermingled, between dance, performance, musical references, horror films and bad jokes. Since Le Coup du cric andalou (2004), Xavier Boussiron has been co-signing with her the pieces for Zerep: Oncle Gourdin (2011), Enjambe Charles (2013), Prélude à l’agonie (2014), Biopigs (2015), Purge, Baby, Purge (2018), or Les Chauves- Souris du volcan (2018).

I am a carnival
A workshop around the notion of a masked self-portrait, whose outreach is not limited to a sarcastic or painful caricature, but which allows us to see ourselves as a laboratory in which different uses of the body and the personality can be experienced, without forgetting masks and processions!