Team
For several years now, we’ve been gravitating in the same artistic circles, but always from a distance. In the end, it was the Biel region that brought us together in 2022, and we quickly got into the habit of sharing our artistic and ecomatic practices. First in a workshop we shared in the town of Biel/Bienne, then in the forest at Gregory’s invitation. It’s a place he knows well, since it was the site of his last research project. This meeting in the MALVAUX forest in April 2023 gave rise to the idea of building a center on the outskirts, a place of learning, exchange and long-term creation.
For the period 2024 to 2025 Malvaux is part of the research project Les 4 Jardins, hosted by the research department of La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène HESSO, in partnership with Unibe.
Artist-choreographer, currently living in Biel/Bienne. Her artistic research revolves around ecosomatic practices, notably through the study of fascia. In 2019, she created her first stage piece
“Sweat!”, in 2021 “We prefer the diaphragm to the heart” and “What we owe to the night” in 2024. She is currently working as a performer for les trois points de suspension (FR/CH) and Laurent Pichaud (FR), and is continuing her long-term collaboration with Joanne Clavel (FR) for the research-creations SILLAGES and RIVAGES, and has joined the AVETA research project under the direction of Julie Sermon at the Manufacture in Lausanne. In addition, she continues to invent collective frameworks for exploring and questioning the notion of artistic production and creative methodologies (Les FAC, STAMM STUDIO, ESCH-MARS, MALVAUX).
Performer, choreographer, researcher, teacher. From 1996 to 2008, he played in an experimental noise band, Lune. Between 2000 and 2001 he began and abandoned his studies at the Beaux-Arts in Geneva, then trained in physical theater at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri. He founded the Le cabinet de curiosités company in Geneva in 2009, with whom he creates in a mobile territory between dance, performance and video. He was associate artist at Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain in Lausanne from 2018 to 2020. From 2007 to 2018 he was a member and co-founder of the video-performance collective Authentic Boys (NL, D, CH). He is a regular lecturer in the Bachelor’s program in contemporary dance at La Manufacture in Lausanne. He directed the research-creation projects “Processus créatifs durables en arts vivants” from 2021 – 2022, and will undertake a new project “Les 4 Jardins” from 2024 – 2026. Gregory is currently in his 3rd year of training at the Tamalpa Institute in Freiburg im Breisgau.
