Marie Goudot
With Sophia Dinkel

Marie Goudot began her career as a dancer with Maurice Béjart in 1998. Since then, she has collaborated with artists and choreographers such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Russell Maliphant, Pierre Droulers, Saša Božic´, Chrysa Parkinson, Ula Sickle, François Laroche-Valière, Mark Lorimer and Ictus Ensemble (Braxton Project, Holding present). In 2005, she initiated a collective project with Julien Monty and Michael Pomero. Together, they founded the LOGE22 choreographic laboratory and co-founded the Spider artistic platform, with European artists from different backgrounds.She has worked and collaborated with choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker since 2010 (Vortex, Work/Travail/ Arbeid, Cesena, 5Agon, Mitten/Cellosuiten...). A member of PARTS, Marie Goudot teaches there, has been involved in designing the school’s pedagogical line since 2016 and assists Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker with various projects. She teaches and gives workshops at PARTS, the CNSMD de Paris, Summerschool and Impulstanz... She is part of the ToolBox project, a research group that identifies and catalogues the compositional tools and choreographic processes used by the Rosas company over the last 40 years. In 2022, Marie Goudot co-founded YOUNGSTERS, a platform bringing together Brussels-based international artists committed to making the arts accessible to young people in Brussels in all their diversity.

“In this shared time we’d like to approach improvisation as a basis for work and highlight the importance of the collective. We’d also like to share various choreographic writing tools, enabling us to compose a collective structure in which each person has the place he/she desires within this ephemeral group. We’ll be able to develop a vocabulary at the start of the workshop, through tasks rooted in improvisation protocols and then inscribed in time and space thanks to writing principles inspired by choreographic practices encountered during my career as a performer and my research work in the studio. What is a temporal procedure? What is its purpose? How do you manage space? How do you generate movement, and potentially write it? What does it mean to write a dance phrase? What is a common vocabulary? How can it be combined with improvisation? The aim of the workshop is to try to answer some of these questions collectively, stressing the importance of communication, seeking solutions for the creation of a common choreographic structure, and understanding the need for negotiation to be able to move together.”