Robyn Orlin

Robyn Orlin was born in Johannesburg in 1955. Known in South Africa as “the permanent irritation”, her work reveals the difficult and complex reality of her country. She integrates a variety of artistic expressions (text, video, visual arts, etc.) to explore a certain theatricality that is reflected in her choreographic vocabulary. Her work includes Daddy, I’ve seen this piece six times before and I still don’t know why they’re hurting each other (1999), which won the Laurence Olivier Award for the year’s most outstanding achievement, and Beauty remained for just a moment then returned gently to her starting position... (2012), which opened the South African season in France in 2013. In April 2018, Robyn Orlin directed Rameau’s Pygmalion, in residence at the Opéra de Dijon, in collaboration with Emmanuelle Haïm as musical director. In 2007, with William Christie and Les Arts florissants, she created Handel’s L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato for the Paris Opera and its dancers. In co-production with INA and ARTE, she made her first film, Hidden Beauties, Dirty Histories, in October 2004. Robyn Orlin became Commandeuse des Arts et des Lettres on November 12, 2022.

“Using simple improvisations , problems solving and other rules that are there to break , the workshop will give artists an opportunity to work in an environment that allows them to study the methods of developing personal vocabularies. Challenging conventions for self-reflection and the experience of being alive in his own work. Robyn Orlin will highlight the creative process with funny, different and surprising situations. This is an opportunity to share a special moment with this artist who speaks of identity, memory and life. Robyn Orlin is considering that there is not only one way to make art, work, but thousands and that there is not only one way to move, but thousands, just like there are many ways to camping!”