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Trained at the Conservatoire du IXe arrondissement in Paris, Sonia Codhant is an actress, director and performer. She founded the La Vie est Courte company in 1997 and the Les Animaux de Zoo company in 2007.

Interpreting several leading roles for television and film, Sonia has appeared in numerous series, and has hosted “Écrans du Savoir” on La Cinquième and “Lundirect” on 89.4 mhz.
In theater, she crosses different ways of approaching the stage, and it’s with director and performer David Noir that she explores a scenic territory more suited to her.
With her own company, Les Animaux du Zoo, she directed Life and Death of Katie Olson based on a text by James Garner about the death penalty, then wrote and performed Le Petit Chaton Rouge based on testimonies about first sexual intercourse.
Several musical adventures punctuate her multifaceted career (Ocelot, Class Enemy, Les Lyriques Shakers…) for which she composes, acts, performs or directs.
Sonia performs alone on stage (Le mâle dedans, Tu > moi, DIS/APPARITION, Greetings)… or with actors Jean-François Rey (Imago, Savoir Vivre, Miroir mon beau miroir dis moi queues, La France Tranquille, Musée de la qualité, Rien…) David Noir (Le Golem nu, la Toison dort, Les Parques d’attraction), choreographer Barbara Mavro Thalassitis(Still Life) or musician François Marnier (Mais comment s/se prendre, Paroles ou musique, l’âme erre).

Since its creation in 2018 by Le Générateur, Sonia Codhant has taken part in almost every edition of Show Your Frasq, the extravagant performance show.

More info: http://lesanimauxduzoo.com/

The GPF is a surrealist-inspired duo formed by Clotilde Salmon, visual artist and author, and Sonia Kuipers, director. They combine literature and visual arts, theater and music, poetry and video to create off-ground, resolutely absurd performances.
The GPF claims multiplicity, of meanings, postures, convictions, with no obligation to perfect, but with the desire to create beauty. Flirting with the notion of the ridiculous, its performances break down stereotypes (social, sexist, artistic, etc.), isolating elements of language and the mechanisms of manipulation that ensue.
The singularity of the GPF also rests on the costumes worn by the performers. They blend realism and extrapolation by superimposing removable attributes on a real body. Out of the norm, they challenge the individual notion of the monstrous, recalling choreographer Ana Halprin’s concept: “The body is an instrument. In the face of prejudice, it becomes a political claim”.
This device blurs perceptions, has fun upsetting lines of comfort and offers, in fact, a suggestion of pure emancipation.

The Groupe Performatif Famapoil collaborates with experimental musicians, visual artists, choreographers and poets, and performs both in art galleries and institutional venues (Lafayette Anticipations, Le Générateur, le 100ECS, etc.) and in the public space. On this principle, for Van Life (a device initiated by visual artist Sarah Trouche) the collective performed in three departments of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region over ten days.
In 2018, for the Erosphère off festival, the GPF created a live show combining visual arts, video and performance, Vulnis Burger, designed to blur the viewer’s perception of the gender stereotype.

Website: https://clotildesalmon.fr/groupe-performatif-fampoil-gpf/

Musician and producer of electronic and experimental music, founder of the DEMENT3D collective and label.
With a dual background as a musician and computer engineer (ENSIMAG graduate), he weaves parallels between technology, mathematics and electronic music. Classically trained as a pianist, he began to pursue sound research and music production as a teenager, learning production techniques at IRCAM.
A keen live performer, he has appeared in concert under the pseudonyms HBT and Heartbeat at the Grand Palais (closing night of Monumenta in 2014), La Gaîté Lyrique, Le New Morning (opening act for Moritz Von Oswald Trio), La Station Gare Des Mines, Le Sucre in Lyon, as well as Beijing Sonic, Le Godberd in Montreal and Ipse in Berlin.
He also cultivates performance-concert projects, which he has developed at Le Générateur, Galerie Ygrec, Le Houloc and Meta Zone Libre in Marseille.
He has released several solo albums and collaborations under the pseudonym HBT (HBTVSK, HBTFM) on the Dawn Records, Champ Libre, Les Éveillés, Tripalium and Submersive labels.