Yoann Sarrat is an artist born in 1989 who works with dance and writing. He holds a PhD in French literature and wrote his thesis on the work of Pierre Guyotat. He has worked with experimental composer Frédéric Acquaviva, choreographer Tal Beit Halachmi, solo violist Marie Takahashi, musician Dezeffe, painter JC Vaultman, pianist Gilles Audebert, visual artist Maria Let, and guitarist Combinaison, and stages multidisciplinary pieces with artists from different fields (tattoo artists, visual artists, VJs, readers). He has performed with several hip hop and contemporary dance companies: Talita Koumi (Tours), E-Go (Niort), Daruma and Nomade (Clermont-Ferrand) and works regularly with the theater company La TraverScène and the collective ZAOUM. He also founded the FREEING Company in 2016 with Thieng Nguyen, with whom he staged the evolving play FE3LS and presents improvisations and performances in situ. Yoann Sarrat also teaches literature in preparatory schools and various disciplines in the performing arts at Clermont Auvergne University. He has written several articles, fiction texts, and poems in fanzines and magazines, created and edited the magazine FREEING [Our Bodies], dedicated to literature and body arts, and co-edited several issues of the magazine 591 with Jean-François Bory since 2021. He is the author of an essay on the sound art of Frédéric Acquaviva, published by Al Dante in 2021, and two books published by Les Presses du Réel in 2022 and 2023. Since 2019, he has been developing the global and transdisciplinary project HDC, which has given rise to choreographic and textual pieces (HDC.20 with Luna Baruta, HDC.23 with Anne Gouineau, and HDC.24 as a solo), performances, books, notebooks, visual artworks, CDs, videos, and films. He is currently creating a new piece within this framework entitled HDC.25.Orph3e.