Gaëlle Bourges

Gaëlle Bourges is a graduate of the University Paris-8 in dance and somatic education through movement. She has taught musical comedy and theatre, and has worked as a stage manager and singer in various structures. She has been creating her own pieces since 2005. The triptych Vider Vénus presents an analysis from an historical viewpoint of depictions of the fine arts, which she had already initiated with the Raoul Batz group, and which largely called upon her experience as a stripper in an erotic theatre between 2006 and 2009. There then followed, among others, À mon seul désir (2015), Conjurer la peur and Revoir Lascaux (2017), Ce que tu vois (2018). Gaëlle Bourges is an associate artist at the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) and L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France.

Based on the creation process of Gaëlle Bourges’s latest piece, Ce que tu vois – which sets up a dialogue between the Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers (14th century) and Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée – the participants of the workshop will navigate between an analysis of the images and of the words that make up the two works in question, and end-of-the-world images, while opening up a space for reflection and action devoted to producing something other than a catastrophe.