BIO

Gaëlle GILLIERON

Choreographer, director, performer

Born in 1974 | Lives and works in Paris (FR)

Graduated in English Literature and Civilization from Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, FR), and in Dance Pedagogy from PESMD (Bordeaux, FR).

Trained in ballet, jazz, modern and contemporary techniques in France, she began her career as a dancer for choreographers Faizal Zeghoudi, Alfred Alerte, Jacky Achar, Martin Kravitz. She practised with choreographers such as Emio Greco, Nasser Martin-Gousset, Thomas Lebrun, Christian Bourigault, Régine Chopinot, Dominique Dupuy. She was directed by Shelley Senter | Trisha Brown Dance Company for the restaging of repertory masterpiece Foray Forêt at Fondation Royaumont, and by Yannick Hugron for Tanztanz – interactive video for iPad produced by Studio Rouchon for Hardi Magazine. She performed in 2022 for director Isild Le Besco and choreographer Peggy Grelat-Dupont, in 2023 for Dutch choreographer Imre van Opstal in the music video Burning Forest by Israeli musical artist Hen Yanni.

As a choreographer, she has developed collaborations with artists from different disciplines – photographer Marc Guéret, choreographer Dominique Lesdema, visual artist Réjane Lhôte, musician Éric Banse, as well as with the Society for Performing Arts in Nigeria in Lagos, Nigeria. More recently, she has been working with designer and choreographer Kandé Magassa | Cie Sin-Jì, on the choreographic solo Agapè, invited by Kinani Festival and Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre in Maputo (MZ) in 2022 and by Karukera Ballet in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe in 2023. She participated as an artistic eye to the 2024 creation The Way Things Go by Austrian choreographer Christian Ubl.

Gaëlle Gillieron founded her company in 2013 and produced a series of studies and short pieces from solo to group forms : Corridor (solo dance video), Skins (quatuor), Music Won’t Save You (15 dancers), Slim Pickings (solo), Nocturne (quintet), Daïvas (15 dancers). She is currently working on a polyptych, with the release of a first opus titled Mécanique de l’invisible, emerging selection of 2022 Signes d’Automne Festival | Le Regard du Cygne – Paris (FR), and was invited to join the 2023 Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Platform for Choreographers in Portugal.

The company’s dance research considers bodies and souls as complex matters, infinite living archives and territories to be explored. The research is based on the idea of memory – steeped in recollection and oblivion from the original to the collective sphere – as the foundation of personal identity, otherness and social cohesion.