Performances de mai

Born in Paris, dancer and choreographer Jeanne Lakits trained in dance in Copenhagen, Vienna and Zagreb while studying physics at the Sorbonne in Paris.

She collaborates with artists such as Oriantheatre Dance Company, Flora Boros, BADco and the Kollektiv Log. Early on, she began her own research into movement and developed her Undirectional improvisational practice, which seeks a body of “directionless” possibilities. She transmits Floorwork and partnering techniques.

Her work has been shown at Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Kultursommer Wien, Regard du Cygne and Carreau du Temple in Paris with the Fabrique de la Danse. Since 2023, she has organized the dance festival Manoir en mouvement in Normandy, seeking new forms of encounters between dance and its audience.

Website
Instagram: @jeannelakits

Photography © Charlotte Lakits

After a BA in Politics and international studies from the University of Warwick (UK) during which she specialized in gender studies, Lyou Bouzon Simonet joins the Performing Arts department at the University of Paris 8. There, she defended a thesis on the use of dance as a tool for the de/re-construction of masculinities, as part of which she led dance workshops for men.

Since 2023, she has devoted herself fully to performance and pole dance. She develops an experimental universe of hybrid, textured movements inspired by contemporary dance, Chinese pole and acrobatics. She plays with the sensuality attached to the pole object, while bringing it to tell stories other than those expected.
She challenges our imaginations by integrating pole into graphic frescoes at the intersection of performance and poetry. Her work articulates a gestural language traversed by words, in constant dialogue with other mediums.

Lyou Bouzon Simonet works for the TAIM’ company. She has also performed for various venues such as the Magasins Généraux(Pantin) and Le Générateur, as well as for alternative and queer culture institutions such as La Station-Gare des Mines (Paris), the Waking Life festival (Portugal) or the Kit Kat (Berlin).

Website
Instagram: @lyou.bou

Photography © Dali Ughetto-Buclet

Born December 8, 1975 in Marseille.
Lives, sleeps, dreams and works between Toulouse and Montreuil.

Sébastien Lespinasse is a poet who writes with his mouth and ears, attentive to the vibrations of the times and the grain of the voices that run through it. He practices a pneumatic poetry that pierces metaphors, tightly weaves sounds and senses, builds imbalances and brings distances closer.

It’s about opening up spaces in which to think, live and breathe by shifting the logic of sentences and meaning. Touching with language. Becoming improper in a shared exercise in impersonal development.

Latest publications:

Presentation on the Trace Label website

Théa Soti is an electronic musician and composer, experimental vocalist, based between Paris and Berlin.

Seeking out the meeting points of electronic sound, narrative, human voice, multimedia, installation and performance, she uses digitally manipulated sound, human voice and poetry in a variety of formats. Most of her works are deeply connected to my own body and voice and investigate various identities projected through vocal qualities, investigating the human in digitally infused environments.

Her solo research has been ongoing since 2020, where she observes how the human voice evolves in digital environments and how the identities attached to it are called into question. Her main aim is to recontextualize the human voice and challenge the preconceptions attached to it by pushing back the boundaries of what a human voice can sound like. She interrogates the contemporary meaning of binary gender, geographically defined cultural heritage, borders, traditional social codes, exploring virtual and posthuman identities through the voice.

She has worked and toured internationally from New York, Paris, Copenhagen, Tbilisi, London, Budapest, Berlin, Belgrade, Istanbul, Moscow, Marrakech, Kinshasa to Tokyo and has been invited as artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris,Sonoscopia Porto, BMC Budapest, Balassi Institute Brussels, Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul, Immersive Arts Space in Zurich or Montevidéo in Marseille. She has worked as a soloist with IRCAM Paris, the Luxembourg Art Week, the Goethe Institut, the Frac Grand Large and has been selected as a SHAPE+ artist for the 2022/2023 season.

His first solo album ØVER+ was released on the Parisian experimental label Planisphère.

At Le Générateur, she intervenes as a collaborator for the performance Undirectional by dancer Jeanne Lakits on May 16, 2025.

Website
Instagram: @theasoti
Youtube

Photography © Taya Chernyshova

Virgile Pellerin is a 26-year-old lyric singer, improvisational vocalist and creative artist.

With his countertenor voice, he initially specialized in early and contemporary music. His taste for acting and the stage led him to opera. In March 2023, iel is the Sorceress in Didon et Enée by Purcell, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón and directed by Marc Lainé for the Philharmonie de Paris. Highly attached to chamber music, iel has formed a duo with pianist Manon Minvielle-Debat since 2022, and in 2024 created an early music ensemble, l’Ensemble Quiebros.

Parallel to his practice as a classical music performer, Virgile Pellerin writes and acts in his own plays and performances: Quelle est ta meilleure peur? in 2022, Les Lieux où je me sens heureux, in 2023. Finally, in 2024, iel is selected by the CNSMDP to be the artist AIMS 2024/2025 and as such benefits from a residency for the creation of his next artistic project: Le Rat, an improvised opera co-written with artist Ariane Bacquet.

Finally, Virgile Pellerin intervenes regularly in theater, as in 2022 when iel proposes for director Aurelia Ivan (Si la Voiture est fétiche, l’accident ne l’est pas) a performance between written music and improvisation. In September 2025, iel will perform at Strasbourg’s festival Musica a musical theater piece by Maëlle Dequiedt and La Phenomena : Une Improvisation sans fin.

Instagram : @virgileplr

Photography © Lionel Pralus