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Julie Nioche is a choreographer, dancer and osteopath. Since 2000, she has been combining theory and practice around the body’s knowledge to develop her creative processes and research. Julie Nioche combines somatic practices and dance improvisation to develop dances in which each person is the author of his or her own gestures. She founded A.I.M.E., an atypical dance company, defined from the outset (2007) as both the bearer of her own artistic projects, and an incubator for collective research and creative projects focused on social issues. A.I.M.E. is developing a creation center and a resource center for socially and physically engaged artistic projects (Paske). A.I.M.E. believes in a form of dance that sees gesture and sensibility as shared knowledge, destined to circulate through the bodies of all and sow the seeds of emancipation. At the heart of Julie Nioche’s work is a search for the invention of a non-ordinary body, powerful even when constrained or made vulnerable, a source of dreamlike images and imaginary creatures.
Lex Frattini is a dancer, a teacher, and an activist around sexual violence. They are looking into how to experience, sense, embody, practice the theoretical knowledge that fuels their desire for social justice. In the last 15 years, they have been spending their time : supporting victims/survivors of sexual violence and their communities, improvising/moving/performing, learning, teaching, healing, fighting for equal access to care for minorities… and trying to understand how to see conflicts as fruitful, how to organize collectively, and how to nourish joy and hope while fighting for social justice. They enjoy teaching what they don’t know, to try and build something together, fail, try again – and on the way, maybe pick a little joy, maybe some empowerment, maybe some ideas how to be better persons.
What can dance do in the face of sexual and gender-based violence?
“Together, we’re looking for ways to celebrate the body as a central tool in this struggle. We propose to cross our knowledge between prevention of sexual and gender-based violence and improvised dance, to develop restorative and emancipatory practices. Through movement and words, we’ll explore notions such as: support, power, justice, the collective body, negotiation, vulnerability, listening, weight-sharing, being present with one’s sensations, taking responsibility”.
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