• Choreography Philip Berlin
• Idea & Concept Philip Berlin, Jean Capeille & Tristan Ihne
• Performers Jean Capeille, Marc Galvez, Tristan Ihne, Vivien Ingrams, Lucile Moulin, Sakiko Oishi, Marion Rastouil & Elisa Ribes

Three artists – all dancers with CCN-Ballet de Lorraine – have come together to create this new piece. Born in Stockholm in 1991, Philip Berlin trained at the Swedish Royal Ballet before working with Ballet Cullberg and choroegraphers Mats Ek, Jo Strömgren and Örjan Andersson. Born in Paris in 1989, Jean Capeille studied contemporary dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris (contemporary dance stream). In addition to performing, he is a contributor to Versus, a new review dedicated to the world of dance. Born in Geneva in 1986, Tristan Ihne trained in classical dance at the Geneva Dance Center. He performed works from the classical repertory with the Ballet de Bordeaux, before joining the Ballet de Lorraine in 2007.

• Conception Carolina Castañeda & Marie de Testa
• Participants Pablo Arellano, Betty Bayen, Carolina Castañeda, Raphaël Ceriez, Marion Clément, Taïeb Elie, Marcos Garcia, Stéphanie Garcia, Julien Goeffier, César Gourdon, Elsa Grzeszczak, Montserrat Guzmán, Laure Haulet, Paloma Hidalgo, Manon Jovenon, Thomas Junca, Carole Labouze, Christelle Lazareno, Zineb Loh, Flavia Lombardo, Helena Milbach, Fanny Moal, Marine Moal, Adrian Moreau, Marcela Moreau, Mario Nuñez, Catherine Radosa, Garance Rivoal, Triana Rodriguez, Lucía Serrano, Marie de Testa, Ellen Wolf (distribution en cours)

Carolina Castañeda and Marie de Testa were both born in 1987, both with dual nationality. Carolina Castañeda Van Waeyenberge is Belgian and Mexican. Trained and working as a communications professional in Mexico City and Montreal (specializing in digital graphics), she is fascinated by video, drawing, theatre, philosophy and astronomy. She is the author of video works and articles for cultural webzines, and collaborates with Orly Beigel, a Mexican agency specializing in concerts and cultural events. Marie de Testa is Franco-Mexican. She studied architecture and theatre in Mexico and Paris before settling in New York, where she lives and works today. She was part of the team representing Mexico at the Rotterdam architecture biennale, and also works as an actor, collaborating with Mexican director Arturo Jimenez and performing in New York at the West 45th Street Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her personal artistic practice explores dramatic structure, and the dramatization of architecture through performance, photography and installations.

• Choreography Chien-Hao Chang
• Music Jun Miyake, Lillies Of The Valley
• Dancers Chien-HaoChang, Chien-Chih Chang & Chien-Kuei Chang
• With the support from the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan

Born in 1985, Chien-Hao Chang lives and works in Taipei (Taiwan). After graduating in dance at the Taipei National University of the Arts, he secured a grant to take part in the 2009 American Dance Festival, and subsequently collaborated with New York’s Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. Back home in Taiwan, he performed in several pieces by choreographer Huang-Yi, and with Body Theatre and Meimage companies. After travelling in Europe for several months, he founded the Chang Dance Theater in 2011 with his brothers Chien-Chih and Chien-Kuei, born in 1986 and 1988. In 2012 he performed his solo work, The Next, in Hong Kong as the guest of the City Contemporary Dance Company. The Next Three turns the solo into a trio, premiered at Danse élargie.

• Script Arthur Eskenazi & Jennifer Lauro Mariani
• Direction Jennifer Lauro Mariani
• Direction VIDEO Arthur Eskenazi SOUNDTRACK Arthur Eskenazi, Jennifer Lauro Mariani & Loran Qui
• Dancers Marcel Devillers, Arthur Eskenazi, Charles Lepine, Timothée Magot & Adrian Schindler

Born a day apart in 1986, Arthur Eskenazi and Jennifer Lauro Mariani met in 2005, when Arthur Eskenazi enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Paris (he graduated in June 2012.) Eskenazi’s work explores the notion of territory and its representation in art, initially through the medium of painting and cartography, and more recently through performance, video and installations. Visual installations and documentary work relay the experience of his performances (mostly comprising extended walks through Paris). Jennifer Lauro Mariani entered the Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 2005, after early theatrical training with the Ecole du Spectacle in Sèvres. She interrupted her training at the Beaux-Arts to carry out research at the Centre d’Etudes en Histoire et Théorie des Arts at France’s Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She defended her thesis on the role of the spectator in contemporary documentary theatre in September 2011. She is a co-founder of Les Syllogomanes, a collective developing projects for performances and exhibitions, of which Arthur Eskenazi is also a member.

• Conception Chloé Fabre
• Music Pinky & Killers, Koi no kisetsu
• Citation extrait de Chansons populaires de l’ère Showa, texte de Murakami Ryû (traduction Sylvain Cardonnel, Éditions Picquier)
• With Anne-Claire Boulard, João Fernando Cabral, Mikaël Chirinian, Julie Coutureau, Ninon Le Gall, Pierre Garcia, Tujiko Noriko, Laetitia Rouiller & Anne Steffens
• Conversation (voiceover) Mikaël Chirinian, Tujiko Noriko, Laetitia Rouiller, Anne Steffens, Karine Yaniv & Kawamura Yuki

Born in Marseille in 1974, Chloé Fabre lives and works in Paris. She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Marseille, where she specialized in audio-visual media before studying scenography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT). After graduating, she worked as a scenographer and costume designer, with a number of directors and choreographers (Judith Depaule, Fabrice Lambert…) and was a co-founder of the collective La Mobile Boutique in 1998, presenting projects in a variety of formats, notably at Mains d’oeuvres, the Gaîté Lyrique and the CICV in Belfort. She has also acted in films by the Japanese film-maker and musician Tujiko Noriko. In 2002, she created the music band Exchpoptrue, with Christian Bouyjou and Radha Valli. Exchpoptrue produced pastiches of mass-market pop music, combining music and performance art. They performed widely in France and abroad, until 2007. The group signed with numerous record labels including Space Factory and Kitsuné, scoring their biggest success at numero uno in the Italian charts with their song Discoteca. For the past three years, Chloé Fabre has produced photographs and videos exploring the concept of disappearance, dissemination and doubling, through the use of cliché and everyday objects from popular culture. She has exhibited at Le Magasin in Grenoble, and travels frequently in Asia, where she held residencies at the Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, in 2008 and 2010.

• Conception, direction & performance Viviana Moin, David TV & Héléna Villovitch (MTV)

Viviana Moin, David TV and Helena Villovitch have come together for the first time, to present a piece for Danse élargie. Viviana Moin began dancing in Buenos Aires, before moving to Paris to study improvisation with Simone Forti, Mark Tompkins and Steve Paxton, and collaborating with choreographers including Jérôme Bel, Christophe Haleb and Ayelen Parolin. Working alone or with other artists, she organizes improvised performances and dance shows, at venues including the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Festival Faits d’Hiver. Born in Bourges, David TV lives in Paris, and works in Paris and Athens. He is a founder and member of the group MOLOKINO, with Agathe Gris, Cécile Bortoletti and Héléna Villovitch, devising expanded cinema performances (using non-traditional modes of projection), in France, Germany and Greece. His solo work includes cinema and video installations presented at venues including the Galerie des Galeries in Paris, Galerie Eliane Levy in Brussels, and Hbc in Berlin. Héléna Villovitch is another native of Bourges, now living and working in Paris. Since 1998, she has authored novels for children and young adults and short stories, published with École des Loisirs and Éditions de l’Olivier. In 2005, she co-produced a 35-mm full-length feature, Bye bye tiger. In 2007, she choreographed a production for Yves-Noël Genod, presented at the Avignon Festival, and devised a performance reading with dance (with Viviana Moin), as part of the Nouveau Festival at the Centre Pompidou in 2012.

• Authors Martin Darondeau, Julien Labigne & Fannie Outeiro
• Direction Martin Darondeau & Julien Labigne
• Performers Jordi Le Bolloc'h, Noémie Chicheportiche, Julien Labigne, Paola Lipzyc, Mehdi Mangal, Maud Marquet, Franck Muon, Fannie Outeiro, Pablo Pauly, Guillaume Ravoire, Arthur Romain, Guillaume Romain, Bertrand De Vathaire & Hyacinthe Ymayanga

Born in 1985, Fannie Outeiro trained in dance at the Conservatoire in Troyes before turning to theatre, initially at the Cours Florent, and finally at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris. Since graduating, she has worked in theatre (with Lisa Wurmser at the Théâtre de la Tempête and Clémentine Célarié and Alain Sachs at the Théâtre de Paris), as well as in radio, television and cinema (she dances in Philippe Garrel’s latest film Un été brûlant). She was a performer in Tatiana Julien’s La Mort & l’Extase, presented at Danse élargie in 2010. Born in 1981, Julien Labigne trained in management and acting before taking up a career as an illusionist. He appears in the show Magicien(s) tout est écrit, by Arthur Jugnot, at the Folies Bergères, the Splendid, and the Théâtre Hébertot. In 2008, he trained Jean Dujardin, Jean Réno and Alice Taglioni in sleight of hand techniques for the film Cash. In the same year, he created the special effects for Edouard Baer’s show Looking for Mister Castang. His book Astuces et manipulations mentales was published by Editions Alternatives in 2008. Born in 1990, Martin Darondeau trained as an actor at the Cour Simon and Acting International before studying as a movie director at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle, from 2009. He has made a number of short features, including Bref, j’ai voulu parodier bref, and directed a production of Pascal Elbé’s play, Pour ceux qui restent, starring Fannie Outeiro. He has recently finished co-writing a show, Mister Chance, with Julien Labigne.

• Conception & Direction Raffaele Pé
• In collaboration with Florencia Guerberof & Leticia Miramontes
• Choreography & film Florencia Guerberof & Leticia Miramontes
• Live video images Giulia Bonisoli, Giulia Lechi & Maria Elena Soriero
• Lights & dispositif vidéo Alessandro Losi
• Dancers Florencia Guerberof, Leticia Miramontes & Kosuke Yoshizaki

Raffaele Pé is an architect and musician, born in Italy in 1985. He studied vocal and instrumental music from age 7, and was a winner of the Monteverdi Young Artist Scheme (awarded by Sir John Eliot Gardner) in 2007. Today, in collaboration with a number of ensembles across Europe, he explores a vocal repertoire extending from the Renaissance to contemporary music. A graduate of the school of architecture and urban planning at Milan’s Scuola Politecnica di Design, he is currently researching a doctorate at the same school, and is a visiting researcher at the Royal College of Art in London. His research interests focus on the urban fabric through an examination of space in the context of urban planning, design and digital technology. He has collaborated with composer Martino Traversa and the electro-acoustic music workshop Promoteo de Parma in Italy, currently presided by Claudio Abbado. Recent publications relating to his research include: Hyper-Localism and Parametric Mapping for Collaborative Urbanism (2012), Organised Networks and the Image of the European Archipelago (2011), Difference beyond Metaphor for a Discriminatory Dialogue between Music and Architecture (2011), and Gli Strumenti dell’Analisi Morfologica e i Fondamenti della Contemporaneità (2009).

• Conception, choreography & staging Ilona Roth
• Sond Bernhard Höchtel & Manuel Mitterhuber
• Choreography & danse Eva Borrmann, Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen, Anna Majder & Olga Swietlicka
• With the support from the Austrian Cultural Forum

Born in Kazakhstan in 1981, Ilona Roth settled in Germany at the age of seven. She has lived and worked in Linz, Austria, since 2003. After training in musical theatre, singing and contemporary dance, in Germany, Austria and the USA, she has turned to choreography, stage directing, teaching and acting. She is fascinated by physics and technology. In Linz, she is the co-founder (with Emmanuelle Vinh) of RedSapata, a contemporary dance venue providing spaces for contemporary artists, currently seeking to establish an international network for the presentation of their creations. Her own company Transitheart Productions creates stage productions, installations and films, including De_Forma (2006), a performance installation presented at the Ars Electronica Center in Austria, and the film The Hype (2011). The Hype received its stage premiere at the Posthof in Linz, in 2012.

With the support of

• Conception & direction Claire Soubrier
• Sound Romain Louis Leroux
• Assistant Camille Pomarède
• Performers Johanna Aygalenq-Tomaschewski, Romain Louis Leroux, Élisa Le Merrer, Jeanne Moynot, Corinne Pelé, Louis Pierre-Lacouture, Céline Pujol, Claire Soubrier & Kevin Tourne

Born in Paris in 1982, Claire Soubrier lives and works in Brussels. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Nantes in 2007, and subsequently studied at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art in Lausanne, graduating in 2008. She has taken part in group exhibitions in Bordeaux, Geneva and Paris, and presented her first solo exhibition in Bordeaux in 2009, on the theme of portraiture. Since 2008, she has devised a series of photographic events under the title Star System, held at art venues including Tinbox in Bordeaux (2010) and Paris’s Gabriel & Gabriel gallery (2011). The shows feature choreographed ‘private views’ with guest artists, gallerists and collectors invited to pose for photographic portraits. In 2010, she became an associate of the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique du Cuvier in Artigues-près-Bordeaux, producing photographs to accompany the venue’s communications campaign. Since 2011, she has devised installations and videos featuring young children and lycée students experimenting with cardboard structures.

• Conception Caro Tuut
• Leader Martha Rodezno
• Technical support Héléna de Laurens
• With Fabrice Baudart, Patrick Beauce, Nathalie Bentolila, Aya Berteaud, Elisabeth Celle, Christine Chardonnier, Lorette Cherel, Jean-Marc Chetrit, Célia Clayre, Rémi Constant, Nataliya Domina, Florence Durand, Manon Gignoux, Eve Girardot, Karine Grenier, Sara Hosxe, Judith Jallin, Anne-Claire Lafait, Jean Lionnet, Rita Marcher, Tamara Mila Vigo, Karima Ouadia, Marika Rizzi, Martha Rodezno, Pascale Salmon, Mathilde Sicot, Sanga Stuber Vandame, Sophie Topicol, Caro Tuut & Paeder Ua Maoilfinn

Born in 1985, in Belgium, Caro Tuut lives and works in Brussels, exploring theatre, writing, photography and video. Her own T(u)(u)(t)theater group premiered the performance work /// il faut en finir avec les chefs d’œuvre / ou / la liberté d’être nousmêmes / pièce documentaire fictionelle de / sur / et / avec Rémi Constant / Héléna de Laurens / Caroline Lionnet / Arthur Navellou / Elsa Pallarès Hugon / maintenant / nous entrons / vous entrez ///. She is in residence at the Théâtre de L’L in Brussels in May and June 2012, working on a new project. In April 2012, she assisted Tim Etchells on the premiere of La nuit suit le jour at the Musée de la danse, with a group of children from across Brittany.

• Direction Chien-Ying Wu
• Performance Precillia Vu Tu Khien (Supervisor), Romain Frank, Ophélie Mahe & Stéphane du Mesgnil d'Engente (Players), Laurent Frank (Arbiter), Rafael Cherkaski & Daniel Longhi (Préparateurs De Terrain)
• Video demonstration Joran Love (Demonstrator)

Born in Taichung (Taiwan) in 1983, Chien-Ying Wu lives and works in Paris. After studying at Taiwan’s National University for the Arts, he settled in France in 2007, graduating from the Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2011. While a student, he staged three solo exhibitions: La logique de consommation, 1 2 3 4, and Animaux du monde. His work featured in group exhibitions in Taipei in 2003 and 2009, and he has taken part in performance works with Beaux-Arts students in Paris, as part of the Nocturnes series at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, and the Festival Hors-Pistes 2011 at the Centre Pompidou. He is currently developing a film project based on the game of badminton, to be premiered in stages (workshops, shooting…), including the performance at Danse élargie.