Lyllie Rouvière is a Berlin-based choreographer and performer. She holds degrees in architecture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La-Villette and in Dance, Context and Choreography at the Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz (HZT) Berlin. During this last three-year course, she studied various dances (contemporary, classical, voguing, butoh…), improvisation techniques and somatic practices, and met the work of numerous artists such as Laurent Chétouane, Boris Charmatz, Jeanine Durning…. She also took part in masterclasses at the Atelier de Paris with Gisèle Vienne, Benoît Lachambre, among others. In her youth, she trained at the Montpellier Conservatory, where she learned the Bagouet repertoire and was taught by Rita Quaglia.
She is interested in body politics and the staging of intimacy. She studies how our internal and external environments affect our bodies, and how to reinject life into them. Her work has been presented at the Festival Artdanthé (Schwärmen) in Paris, at the Performing Arts Festival Berlin (Un peu de romantisme), at Tanzfabrik Berlin (Esprit), at Radialsystem Berlin (Love:15), at Art quarter Budapest (Holy Guts), in Iran at the Invisible Centre of Contemporary Dance (Schwärmen) and in London at APT Gallery (Popular). Her performances have been supported by the DRAC Ile-de-France, the Goethe Institut and the Senat Berlin.
Through collaborations with artists such as Doris Uhlich (more than naked, Habitat), André Uerba (Aeffective Choreography, Fire Starter,…) and July/Julian Weber (Perineum, La Isla Bonita,…), she has developed a raw, visceral relationship with the body. She also supports her dance by working on breathing, voice and singing to ritualize her own creations. 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. She also co-created Soft Incident, a series of body and sound performances, with artist Thomas Laigle, at the KULE (Kunst und Leben) gallery in central Berlin.