Faits d’Hiver

Born in Vienne in the Dauphiné region where the patois is no longer spoken, of Spanish origin, Marlène Rostaing was born between two cultures, where French intersects with Spanish. She began gymnastics at the age of 4, then in 1994 following an injury she turned to theater, which she practiced in Lyon with Bernard Bauguil, then obtained a DEUG in Performing Arts at the Université Paris 8 St Denis section Théâtre where she met Claude Bushwald, stage liar, movement theater Claire Heggen and Yves Marc. She then entered the École Marcel Marceau where she discovered body mime, the technique of Etienne Decroux quickly becoming her first choreographic tool. Also an acrobat, she follows professional training at the circus school Le Lido in Toulouse and in parallel contemporary dance classes at the James Carles dance center, then in Belgium. She will continue to train in dance with David Zambrano, Nina Dipla, Roberto Olivan, Sharon Fridman… in theater with Simon Abkarian, Yoshi Ohida, in improvisation with Joëlle Léandre and Cécile Loyer and in singing with David Goldsworthy (Roy Hart Theater),Beñat Achiary, Hélène Sage, Elise Dabrowski, and the Glottes Trotters school directed by Martina Catella in Paris.

Her career as a performer crosses paths with Joëlle Bouvier, the Collectif l’Art Quotidien, Josef Nadj, Aurélien Bory, Phia Ménard, Lali Ayguadé, Baro D’Evel. She creates the Cie Body! Don’t Cry based in Toulouse. She begins work on her heritage of femininity through three soli Le Bal, Tragôdia ou Thésée-moi! and Marie Blues création 2023, in which dance and voice intermingle. In 2010 she discovered and practiced dance and voice improvisation. She passes on her improvisation technique, which she develops around dance, spoken and sung voice through workshops.

Created in 1993, the Compagnie Yvann Alexandre is a professional contemporary dance company based in the Pays de la Loire region. Attached since its beginnings to the back-and-forth between professionals, amateurs and the general public, the company develops its creations on stage or in situ, and weaves a policy of exchanges, encounters and training.
In 2019, the company took over the artistic direction of the Théâtre Francine Vasse in Nantes with an atypical project turned towards other artistic teams, and which starts with transmission to arrive at the work: Les Laboratoires Vivants. Faithful to its ties with Quebec, it is developing, among other things, Archipel, an agile cooperation platform for artistic mobilities.
The 2022/2023 season marks 30 YEARS OF DANCE! and unfolds around the choreographic creation Infinité, and the film Une Île de danse.
more info: https://www.cieyvannalexandre.com

About Yvann Alexandre

From the very beginning, Yvann Alexandre’s creative engines have stemmed from human encounters. He starts his processes with transmission, then moves on to writing a work. He is a choreographer who looks at the world, right in the dance, who precisely maps the echo of the world within him, with attention, delicacy, absorbing fleeting fluctuations, hazards, tomorrow is above all a choreography that ignores itself. With a particular attachment to the writing of movement, and with fidelity to the notion of line, he has established himself as the exponent of abstract dance. His precise gestures are teeming with detail, organized like intimate calligraphy. His way of composing on score with a personal notation, today allows himself to free himself from his own codes, in favor of direct interaction with the performers. The compagnie yvann alexandre, will celebrate 30 YEARS OF DANCE next season!

Born in La Roche-Sur-Yon in 1976, Yvann Alexandre began his career with the amicale laïque and at the conservatoire in his home town, before moving on to the conservatoire in La Rochelle. He continued his studies in Montpellier with Epsedanse and at the same time attended the CCN de Montpellier, newly directed by Mathilde Monnier. So it was at the age of sixteen that he composed his first pieces, and created his company in 1993 in Montpellier. He created his first work for the Hivernales d’Avignon and Montpellier Danse. In addition to his creations, presented on many prestigious stages and festivals in France and abroad, he is also a guest at the Conservatoires National Supérieurs de Paris et de Lyon, in Quebec and Montreal, or at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nancy and the Nordwest Tanzcompagnie in Germany.

Alongside his creative work, he also assumes the artistic direction of the Théâtre Francine Vasse in Nantes with an innovative project that starts with transmission to arrive at the work: Les Laboratoires Vivants.