Lyllie Rouvière is a choreographer and dancer/performer based in Berlin. She is interested in body politics and the staging of intimacy. She questions how our internal and external environments affect our bodies, and how to reinject life into them.

She holds degrees in architecture from the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La-Villette and in dance, context and choreography from the Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz (HZT) in Berlin. During the latter three-year course, she studied various dances (contemporary, classical, voguing, butoh…), improvisation techniques and somatic practices, and encountered the work of numerous artists such as Laurent Chétouane, Boris Charmatz, Jeanine Durning……. She has also taken part in masterclasses at the Atelier de Paris with Gisèle Vienne and Benoît Lachambre, among others. In her youth, she trained at the Conservatoire de Montpellier danse, where she learned the Bagouet repertoire and was taught by Rita Quaglia.

Her work has been presented internationally at Festival Artdanthé (Schwärmen) in Paris, Performing Arts Festival Berlin (Un peu de romantisme), Tanzfabrik Berlin (Esprit), Radialsystem Berlin (Love:15), Art quarter Budapest (Holy Guts), Invisible Centre of Contemporary Dance (Schwärmen) in Iran and APT Gallery London (Popular). Her performances have been supported by DRAC île-de-France, the Goethe Institut and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

Through collaborations with artists such as Doris Uhlich (more than naked, Habitat), André Uerba (Aeffective Choreography, Fire Starter,…), Julian Weber (Perineum, La Isla Bonita,…) or Moran Sanderovich (Anastatica) she has developed a raw, visceral relationship with the body. She also supports her dance by working on breathing, voice and song. At the same time, she is a member of the Psychedelic Choir, a women’s choir developing a vocal practice at the frontiers of ambient and acoustic noise.

She developed the Breath&Matter workshop as part of the Embodied Studio Work module (collective) directed by Stella Geppert at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. Together with Tomas Diafas and Ioanna Mitza, she recently launched the School of Performance Art, a project focused on performance education.

She also co-created Soft Incident, a body&sound performance series, with artist Thomas Laigle, at the KULE (Kunst und Leben) gallery in central Berlin.

 

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