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 worked for 15 years with choreographers such as: Lisi Estaràs (Les Ballets C. de la B.), David Zambrano, Finger Six collective, Groupe Entorse, Monia Montali and François Bodeux and more recently the Tumbleweed company.

Since 2023, she has been a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method.

  • 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

Portrait CANAL23 - CND Pantin
Portrait Associated Artists 2023-2026 - Charleroi danse
Docu ARTE How do you dance a glitch ?
collaborators