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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.

Solène Langlais was born in Nantes in 1994. She is a visual artist and performer who now lives and works between Paris and Normandy. Her work focuses on representations of boxing in film and television, the notion of the gaze in boxing films, the gendered distribution of roles, and the porosity between fiction, television, and the reality of boxing clubs. It navigates between visual arts, textiles, writing, and performance. Solène Langlais reproduces gestures, images, objects, and words taken from boxing films and televised fights in order to appropriate them and observe what the (inevitable) discrepancy with the original produces. 
She formed the group MANTE with artist Valdo Savoye-Gavarini. Together, they design editorial objects, performances, and organize events.

Charlotte Larouche is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in a reflection on feminist geography and gender relations in urban spaces. A young artist from Quebec City, she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Visual Arts and Contemporary Creation at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where she is developing research that combines performance, sculpture, and installation. In her work, she questions the way in which bodies, particularly feminized bodies, occupy and traverse the city. She is particularly interested in the dynamics of visibility and invisibility, the way in which urban planning shapes our behavior, and the bodily strategies that can destabilize or reinvent these norms.

Born in 1985 in Seine-Saint-Denis, where she grew up, Emmanuelle Tornero is an author and sound designer. She currently lives in Le Havre. She is a member of several collectives and associations: Les Obliques, which produces and distributes films and radio programs; PiedNu (Le Havre), where she co-organizes collective and experimental radio evenings (Pièce Montée, Radio Bonnes Ondes, Blind Date, etc.); La Disquette, which focuses on the creation and transmission (workshops, local residencies) of audio documentaries. In 2024, she published her first novel, Une femme entre dans le champ, with Zoé Publishing.

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