Soirée PARTA G#2

Camille Guibert – Artistic Direction, Choreography, Interpretation (28 years old)
After a degree in Performing Arts at the University of Poitiers and the discovery of contemporary dance, he participated in the creation and interpretation of various shows with Gaëlle Bourges, Mickaël Phelippeau, Jonathan Drillet and Marlène Saldana.
Initiated on the path of trance after a first initiation with the Bwiti in Cameroon, he pursued this work as part of a Master’s degree in research and creation at Bordeaux Montaigne University, for which he directed his first show with 5 performers. He then travelled to Togo and Benin to conduct an ethnography of vodou possession dances, which became the subject of his doctoral thesis at the EPHE in Paris, for which he obtained a doctoral contract. In the second half of 2024, he gave a series of seminars at this institution on the body in trance. He also organizes initiation workshops in France and abroad, as well as exhibitions, including one at the Galerie de la Goutte d’Or, bringing together dozens of artists from all horizons, in April 2022. He collaborates with Shenna Rochas and Clémentine Chaperon on the visualization of his experiments. He continues to train in contemporary dance, traditional French dance, gwoka, krump and house.

Pierre Pradier – Musical conception, interpretation (28 years old)
He is a performing guitarist, improviser and composer. After scientific studies at the Université René Descartes, he devoted himself entirely to the study of music at the CNSMD in Paris. There he studied classical guitar, electric guitar, generative improvisation and new technologies applied to composition. At the same time, he studied instrumental composition at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Boulogne Billancourt. His musical personality, notably inspired by contemporary, free jazz, rock and experimental repertoires, expresses itself in the fields of musical creation, performance art, theater and video. In 2023, he took part in the launch concert of the contemporary music festival Ensemble(s) in the creation, with the ensemble 2e2m, of Jean-Luc Hervé’s composition for instrumental ensemble Zones . He takes part in a performance tour of the piece Street Art mixing musical creation, free-running and dance with the ensemble Les Apaches as well as free-runners Simon Nogeira and Andrea Catozzi. He collaborates with visual artist Marc Lochner in the composition and creation, on organ, of a multidisciplinary piece called Lumen and composes the music for the short film Le Foyer, directed by Zoé Bernardi. The fruit of a two-year residency at the Cité internationale des arts from March 2022 to March 2024, Pierre collaborates very actively with Spanish composer Manuel Hidalgo Navas and Finnish director Nina-Maria Oförsagd.

Margot Fréret – Costume Design (29) She works on projects for shows, operas, musicals, feature films, series and short films. Alongside her initial training in psychomotricity, she practiced contemporary dance with the Bordeaux Montaigne university company. There she met a number of people with whom she collaborated on various artistic projects. For 4 years, she was a member of the performance collective CommentC’estMainant?. It was while exploring performance art that she discovered her attraction for experimenting with clothes and textiles. She then trained in sewing to acquire the technical basics and deepen her exploration of this medium. She then took a costume course at La Générale, where she met several costume designers with whom she has since worked on various projects, as assistant, costume designer, dresser or seamstress. She enjoys collaborating on experimental artistic projects, traversing varied universes and seeking to accompany designers and performers in finding their costumes.

Élouise Royannais – Lighting Designer (29) Elouise was born in Marseille, where she took an early interest in art and live performance. She turned to artistic studies in cinema and the performing arts, where she learned about directing, acting and, above all, the technical side of show business. In 2020, she began a collaboration with the visual artist collective Les Pas Perdus at the Usine Pillard. She trains in carpentry and construction in a creative context. Always eager to professionalize in the performing arts and to delve deeper into technical trades, she began training as a stage manager technician in Brussels. Alternating between the Théâtre 140 and the Raffinerie – Charleroi Danse she found her medium, lighting, which she has been exploring ever since. She began creating light with musical artists Dorothy Gale and Julie Rains, and worked with the Abis company and choreographer

Katalin Patkaï graduated as a set designer from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She first worked as a scenographer with choreographers Arco Renz, Marion Ballester and Marie-Jo Faggianelli, then with her own pieces: Spatial sound for a dancer (2002), which welded her collaboration with Ugo Dehaes. She became involved in dance with the project entrusted to her by set designer Pierre Jorge Gonzalez, working with choreographer Arno Renz at Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Flemish Dance Center (Rosas). Then, from her encounter with multidisciplinary artist Yves-Noël Genod, C’est pas pour les cochons (2009) was born. In 2013, following the birth of her two sons, she undertook MILF. In 2015, follows Remous, a piece for the very young, she continues with childhood in the piece HS in a more intimate way with her own child.
In 2008, Daniel Larrieu awarded Katalin Patkaï the SACD prize for New Choreographic Talent. She performs for choreographers Marie-Jo Faggianelli, Isabelle Esposito, Erika Zueneli and Eric Arnal Burtschy. She is a graduate of the EFAY yoga school.

Katalin Patkaï has been collaborating with Le Générateur for over ten years, where she has shown several of her pieces and participated in collective initiatives such as Les 24h de la performance in 2015.

Natacha Nicora was born in 1980 in Argentina, where she studied classical and contemporary dance. She moved to Belgium in 1997 and continued her training as a dancer.

In 1999, she began her professional career, which she divides between dance and theater, collaborating with other artists or developing  her personal projects, hybrid projects of “trash poetry”.

At the turn of the 2000s, and for two years, she worked with Les ballets C de la B under the direction of Alain Platel and Arne Sierens. She developed a long collaboration with Manah Depauw, performing in one of his creations at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in 2004. For 10 years, she also performed with the group Toc under the artistic direction of Anne Thuot, who directed texts by Marie Henry. Today, she performs in the public space with Xtnt.

Since 2002, she has also been developing her personal projects, solo and collaborative performances: “Cronopios sin famas”, “Calamar-a-te”, “Solo – Sola?”, “Übernatürliche Pizza” with musician Maxime Bodson and “Uff!!! (the end)”. Dance and theater projects, but also forays into the visual arts, such as those she’s developing with Beata Szparagowska and Sabrina Montiel Soto.

Recently, she has participated in the translation of plays by Rafael Spregelburd: “La Modestia” with the Transquinquennal collective and “La Estupidez” with the Flemish group Tristero.

Curious about pedagogical issues, she is a practitioner of the Feldenkrais method; she is also regularly solicited by the theater section of INSAS in Brussels.