Flora Détraz

Choreographer

May 2023

Flora Detraz

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"Outside the established norms, those artists created an interdisciplinary art and timeless, unclassifiable works. They left their mark on history and are truly inspirational figures in my research."
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As part of Albertine Dance Season 2023

 

I was born into a family of musicians. After studying classical dance and literature, I extended my interest to things that traverse the body and the relationship between the visible and the invisible. I had the great good fortune to meet artists who really inspired me, including Maguy Marin, Meredith Monk, Vera Mantero, Lia Rodrigues and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, with whom I have worked for several years. Exploring different media (dance, music, and cinema), I have developed research on the connection between voice and movement. 

 

Flora Detraz (b. 1988 in Versailles) studied classical dance and literature. She trained at the CCN in Rillieux-la-Pape, near Lyon, with choreographer Maguy Marin, and then completed her choreographic studies at the PEPCC Forum Dança in Lisbon. As a performer, she works with Marlene Monteiro Freitas. Since 2013, she has been creating her own choreographies, based on the relationship and interaction between voice and movement: Peuplements (2013), Gesächt (2014), Tutuguri (2016), Muyte Maker (2018), and Glottis (2021).  

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Maison de la danse

The Maison de la danse is a theater located in the 8th district of the city of Lyon. It was initially founded in 1980 within the walls of the current Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse before moving in 1992 to what was then called the Théâtre du 8e. This stage, head of the network for dance in Rhône-Alpes, ensures a programming of national and international companies as well as the programming of young companies from Rhône-Alpes. It also hosts companies in residence in a special creation studio and has a reference documentary base on dance with a video library of more than 1000 filmed shows. 

 

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