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.
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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.