Olivia Grandville

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). As 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.She is currently working on her new creation La Guerre des pauvres based on the novel by Éric Vuillard.