PERFORMING LAND / FRANCE / LOUISIANA PREMIERE

Performing Land aims at showing how the performer can be nourished mentally and physically, influenced by the energy of Nature, through processes of exploration and experimentation. It is an attempt to consider the human body as an organic material, a natural moving material capable of giving shapes and volumes to an aesthetic representation.

In those steps of being, the performer brings to light the interrogation of the place of nature for the individual, towards a possible reconciliation between both.

Performing Land is a singular hymn to nature.

Director's Statement:

Dancer-performer and creator of artistic performances, using different supports, Marielle Gonier creates by offering a singular vision where arts and movements mix, always in search of an unformatted writing. Its starting point: the body-interiority relationship towards a universal language.

Director's Biography:

After an initiation to ballet and a solid musical training at the conservatory (piano studies) Marielle left her native island , Martinique, for the United States to complete her artistic training.

In New York, she continued her studies in ballet dance at the Russian Ballet School and on Broadway, honing her skills in contemporary dance, modern-jazz and afro-jazz.

In Paris, she continued her career at the Jennifer Goubé Ballet School and at the International Dance Academy: dance, theater, singing.She also obtained a Master I in Performing Arts at the University of Paris VIII.

Marielle is currently the founder of Un jour / Une performance, where she devotes herself to multidisciplinary artistic creations and performances, and artwork in collaboration.