Olivia Grandville
Trained at the ballet school of the Opéra de Paris, Olivia Grandville joined its corps de ballet in 1981, before becoming sujet in 1983. Until 1988, when she left the institution for other adventures, she performed, along with the classic repertory, works by Balanchine, Limón and Cunningham, and took part in the creations of Maguy Marin, Bob Wilson and especially Dominique Bagouet. In 1989, she joined Dominique Bagouet's company and participated in all his shows until the choreographer died in 1992. This is when she started to create her own projects. Very early on, she showed her interest in the polysemous dimension of dance, in particular the correspondences between gestures and words. From Le K de E inspired by Kurt Schwitters' writings in 1993, to Comment taire developed in 2006 with the IRCAM Eyes Web software, she puts into play a combinatory aesthetics that connects the body to the writings of the performing arts (text, music, lighting...), while never losing sight of the movement quality. At the Festival d'Avignon, Olivia Grandville danced Jours étranges and So Schnell by Dominique Bagouet in the Cour d'honneur in 1993, before returning in 2010 with Flip Book by Boris Charmatz and the premiere of Une semaine d'art en Avignon, a Sujets à Vif that proposed, with her mother Léone Nogarède, and Catherine Legrand, a dancer she met with Bagouet, a sensitive panorama of the Festival's history.
LP, May, 2011.