Olivia Grandville

with Jonathan Seilman

After training at the École de Danse of the Opéra de Paris, Olivia Grandville joined Dominique Bagouet’s company in 1989 and participated in all his pieces until his disappearance in 1992. Since then, she has devoted herselves to her own projects. In this way, she can affirm her interest in gestures and words. In particular, she has created Une semaine d’art en Avignon (2010), Le Cabaret discrépant (2011), Le Grand jeu, Toute ressemblance et similitude (2014). An associate artist at the Lieu Unique in Nantes, she created there À l’Ouest (2018) and Dancepark (2019), a project conceived with Yves Godin. In 2019, invited by the Ballet de Lorraine, she created Jour de colère. Alongside her work as a choreographer, she is also a teacher, improviser and performer, in particular with Vincent Dupont and Boris Charmatz.

Accompanied by the musician Jonathan Seilman, and on the basis of the documentary Woodstock, 3 jours de paix de musique et d’amour (3 days of peace, music and love), which follows the inexorable dramaturgy of those three cult days in August 1969, Olivia Grandville proposes a reflection about the heritage of Flower Power and the question of utopias in today’s society. What is the inheritance of the Summer of Love, apart from teaching us how to “dance like a tree”?