With a doctorate in dance from Université Paris VIII, Volmir Cordeiro (1987) first studied theater, then went on to collaborate with Brazilian choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Cristina Moura and Lia Rodrigues. He joined the “Essais” training program in 2011 at Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers – direction Emmanuelle Huynh where he obtained a master’s degree in performance and creation.
In Europe, he has participated in works by Xavier Le Roy, Laurent Pichaud & Rémy Héritier, Emmanuelle Huynh, Jocelyn Cottencin, Vera Mantero, Nadia Lauro & Zenna Parkins and Lâtifa Laabissi. As a choreographer, he created a first cycle of work consisting of three solos: Ciel (2012, created at the CNDC in Angers), Inês (2014, created at the Festival Actoral, in Marseille) and Rue (2015, created at the Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with the FIAC). In February 2017, he created in Brest a piece for four dancers, L’oeil la bouche et le reste. In parallel with this creation, he proposes a video exhibition of the same title around the poetics of the face in the history of dance for the Centre d’Art Passerelle in collaboration with the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou. In 2019 Volmir Cordeiro created Trottoir, a piece for six performers, presented at the Festival Actoral in Marseille and the Festival D’Automne in Paris.
He regularly teaches at choreographic training schools such as the Master Exerce (ICI-CCN Montpellier, France), Master Drama (Kask, Ghent, Belgium), PARTS in Brussels, at the Ménagerie de Verre and as part of the Camping festival, at the Centre National de la Danse, Pantin. He is the author of “Ex-Corpo” a work devoted to the figures of marginality in contemporary dance and the notion of the artist-researcher, reflections in continuity with the thesis he defended at Paris 8 University in November 2018.
In 2021 with Érosion, a creation for the CCN – Ballet de Lorraine in Nancy, Volmir will revisit les Ballets Suédois, a particular Dadaist troupe based at the Théâtres de Champs-Elysées between 1920 and 1925.
Associated artist with the Scène Nationale de Cergy-Pontoise – Points Communs, and la Briqueterie – CDCN in Vitry, her Compagnie Donna Volcan, supported by the Drac as structuring aid, thinks of the volcanic as the foundation of creation: earth, fire, air and the vital impulse.
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