Mathilde Monfreux follows the Prototype choreographer training program at the Abbaye de Royaumont in 2017. She is influenced by American Post modern dance and in particular the artists of the Judson Church within which Contact Improvisation was invented. In the course of her career, she met Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith and Daniel Lepkoff.
American artists Keith Henessy, Mark Tompkins, Antonija Livingston and Jennifer Lacey, whom Mathilde met more recently, explode the boundaries between dance and performance, and interweave in their approach a whole reflection committed against a consumerist world, and in this strongly influence Mathilde Monfreux. In France, she develops her dance with circus artists (Camille Boitel, Laurent Chanel, Fany Soriano) and visual artists (Elizabeth Saint Jalmes, Robin Decourcy), working with apparatus, objects, sculptures and voice (she has worked with Anne-Laure Pigache from Harmoniques du Néon). Her choreographic work is centered on the idea of the organic body, and dialogues with other arts and more conceptual aspects. She has been teaching these body-to-body techniques for many years, based on her circus and visual arts experiences.
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