Johanne Saunier

Johanne Saunier is a choreographer, and vocal and dance performer. From 1986 to 1998, she danced with the Rosas company of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, with whom she still works as an assistant and rehearsal coach. She created JOJI INC with Jim Clayburgh, and Erase-E(X) with the Wooster Group, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Georges Aperghis and Kurt d’Haeseleer. Since 2002, she has performed in contemporary operas staged by Luc Bondy, Guy Cassiers, Georges Aperghis, Jim Clayburgh, François Sarhan/Quatuor Diotima, Sybille Wilson, or Mathurin Bolze. She teaches at P.A.R.T.S. and at various European schools. She has created Ballets Confidentiels, choreographic concerts played in unusual places, with or without live music. She has assisted Jean-Francois Sivadier with his operas since 2012. In 2018, she directed her first opera, Arthur Lavandier’s La Légende du Roi Dragon, with two hundred and ten children.

The objective of this workshop is to allow each participant to broaden their gestural vocabulary and to set it in space, while seeking out and experiencing compositional tools inspired by those developed in musical composition, and whose sole limitations are those imposed by bodily capacities, and not by technique, be it classical, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop or others