Ève Magot

Ève Magot is a trans artist, dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is the creator of hybrid pieces combining dance, performance, poetry and DIY, in which she lives and shares utopias, here and now, fighting with perseverance, strength and gentleness to transform the world towards greater justice and equality. La 36ème chambre (2011), Derrière la porte verte (2012) and Des Paradis (2015), constitute the first cycle of pieces in which she delves into the relationships between the environment and our behaviors, our capacities to cohabit and cooperate. This cycle constitutes a search for forms of liberation by playing with constraints, norms and handicaps. In 2016, she created Les Promesses du Magma in collaboration with rapper Casey for Sujets à Vif in Avignon. It was followed by The Sweet Way, in 2018, with the Reunionese parkour group New Gravity. In 2019, she began a new cycle with La Poursuite du Cyclone (to destroy a world and be reborn), followed in 2021 by Dans le Mille (to sabotage dominant masculinities and binarities) and Le Temps de Rien (to contemplate oneself) in 2022. In 2024, she created the solo Jardin Futur / Club Sabotage and started preparing the trio 3.0 with three trans fem dancers for 2026. Since 2011, she has been collaborating with Nina Santes within La Fronde, a mutual and cooperative structureand a space for innovation and creative work. 

“This workshop is an opportunity for me to share what drives me, what makes me want to dance and create right now. Each day will begin with a warm-up consisting of somatic practices and dance fundamentals. The aim is to warm up our bodies and our imaginations, and gradually develop a common physical vocabulary. We’ll work through a range of experiences and tools to create singular and collective dances. Emphasis will be placed on improvisation, instant writing, the pleasure of discovering the dances that emerge, the ability to choose for oneself and to create together. We’ll explore the dynamics of lapdance, or the art of fucking brains: seeing and being seen, playing with gazes, the dynamics of power and control of the situation, distance and proximity, contact and non-contact. A workshop to give ourselves time that we never – or far too rarely – have as people with unusual genders, bodies and sensualities. To give and receive dances with desire and respect, in a group, together, with strangers and acquaintances, one beside the other. Throughout the workshop, we’ll carefully express the desires and limitations of givers and receivers. To this end, we’ll talk and set boundaries before each dance, so that we can then dance joyfully, lightly and warmly, offering each other these lap dances, for us. You are welcome whatever your current state, your mental and physical health, your impulses or fear, your libidos or their absence; with your different backgrounds, with your riches, your strengths, your sadness, your desires and your abysses. Bring everything. This workshop is designed to take care of ourselves and each other.” Ève Magot