Maud Blandel, I L K A, L’OEIL NU, 2023

In her latest creation, Maud Blandel associates the astrophysical phenomenon of pulsars with a personal and tragic sonic memory. By translating principles such as rotation, gravity and periodicity, L'œil nu involves six dancers and transforms the stage space into a field of observation: faced with a body (stellar, physical, collective) that degenerates, what do we really perceive?

Trained initially in contemporary dance, then in directing (Manufacture, Lausanne) and visual arts (HEAD, Geneva), Maud Blandel has been developing her own choreographic works since 2015. Singular and physically engaged, each of her works relies on a conceptual musical basis in order to put into body and shape various phenomena altered by the passage of time. For example, she works on the notion of the sacrificed body and the staging of the female body (TOUCH DOWN, 2015), on the folklorization of popular dance practices (Lignes de conduite, 2018), on the killing of time via a type of 17th-century musical entertainment called Divertimento (Diverti Menti, 2020). She also works as an assistant to artists such as Cindy Van Acker, Karim Bel Kacem, Heiner Goebbels and Romeo Castellucci.

Since 2016, Maud Blandel has been supported by Parallèle in production and dissemination. She has been artist-in-residence at the Arsenic - center d'art scénique contemporain de Lausanne since September 2018, and is associate artist at the CNDC - Angers as well as at Bonlieu - scène nationale d'Annecy.

As part of the Parallèle festival, she presented Touch Down at ZEF in 2016 and an in situ version at Mucem in 2018. Lignes de conduites was presented at KLAP Maison pour la danse in 2019 and Diverti Menti at Théâtre des Bernardines in 2016.