DEMESTRI + LEFEUVRE gives shape to the various artistic projects of Franco-Argentinian dancers and choreographers Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre.
Several years ago, they embarked on a cycle of creations questioning the imaginaries on which we build our relationship with the world and with living things, as well as a project entitled «Nomadic Research Cells», driven by the desire to create encounters and to nourish and renew their questioning outside the confines of production. By exploring non-anthropocentric choreographic practices and dramaturgies that seek to establish affectionate relationships with living non-humans, they want to invite spectators to de-hierarchize their gaze and reactivate a multi-sensory connection to the world.
- florencia demestri
- artistic co-direction
A multi-disciplinary artist originally from Argentina, Florencia Demestri has lived and worked in Brussels since 2003. During her youth, she studied theatre, circus and contemporary dance in Argentina, then in Brazil, Cuba and Spain. In 2006 she graduated from ESAC with a Grand Jury Distinction. Passionate about choreography and performance, she naturally turned to dance companies when she left school. She has been working for choreographers such as: Lisi Estaràs (Les Ballets C. de la B.), David Zambrano, Karine Ponties, Roberto Olivan, Finger Six collective, Groupe Entorse, and recently with Monia Montali and François Bodeux. Since 2010, alongside her work as a performer, she has also embarked on her own choreographic research and collaborated with various artists: Claudio Stellato (The Last Days Project), Piergiorgio Milano (Do you love me?) and Peter Jasko and Simon Thierrée (Spring Quartet).
- samuel lefeuvre
- artistic co-direction
After training in dance in Caen and at the CNDC in Angers, Samuel Lefeuvre moved to Brussels in 2001, working for the Michèle Anne De Mey company and then for Les Ballets C. de la B. (Wolf by Alain Platel, and La Mancha, Patchagonia and Primero/Erscht by Lisi Estaràs). During the creation of Wolf, he met Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, who invited him to join Peeping Tom for the creations Le Salon and Le Sous-Sol. In 2007, he founded the group ENTORSE with musician Raphaëlle Latini, with whom he created the shows ACCIDENS (ce qui arrive), [àut], Haute Résilience and Hantologie. He took part in Jérôme Bel’s creation of Cour d’Honneur for the Festival d’Avignon 2014 and has worked for several years with Boris Charmatz/TERRAIN (10,000 Gestes, 20 Danseurs pour le XXème Siècle, La Ruée, La Ronde).
portraits
- camille collard – administration – production
- charlotte grace wacker – production – distribution
- laetitia bica – visual collaboration
- sofie durnez – scenography – costumes
- raphaëlle latini - music
- julian sartorius – music
- nicolas olivier – lights
- arnaud gerniers + benjamin van thiel – lights
- tom grand mourcel - dancer
- christina guieb - dancer
- hanne kristine jensen - dancer
- david pallant - dancer
- amarine rignanese - dancer
- loü viret - dancer
- ricardo ambrozio - dancer
- lief weuts - performer
- laureline richard - dancer
- natalia fandiño – costumes
- vanessa pinto – costumes
- catherine somers– costumes
- isabelle lhoas – costumes
- arnaud timmermans – dramaturgy
- emmanuelle nizou – dramaturgy
- olivier hespel – dramaturgy
- françois bodeux – technical direction – tour technician - scenography
- sacha delhaye – tour technician
- stanislav dobak – videos
- ikue nakagawa – 'childhood' research cell - drawings
- natacha nicora – 'childhood' research cell
- colline étienne – 'childhood' research cell