biographies
Dancer and choreographer, Zoë De Sousa approaches song and movement as a unified whole and a process of transformation.
She created her first works as part of the Ateliers at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris, under the direction of Cédric Andrieux. After completing a Master’s degree in choreographic studies, where she was mentored by Myriam Gourfink and Pauline Le Boulba, Zoë created Peaux – Troisième Hymne , a performance for seven dancers, and became an artist-in-residence at the Espace Pasolini in Valenciennes in 2021.
As a dancer, Zoë performed the solo IBM 1401 by Icelandic choreographer Erna Omarsdottir in 2018, while studying at the CNSMDP, and developed her skills with the Conservatory’s young company. She went on to work with Dominique Brun, Jérôme Bel, and Anne Collod.
Today, Zoë is actively involved in creation as a performer (for Anne Collod and Mylène Benoit), an artistic collaborator (for Eva Aubigny and Pierre Morillon), and a choreographer. In 2024, she created Le Soupir du Sable , a song-and-dance duet with her father, Philippe De Sousa, a fado guitarist, in which she revisits a personal legacy of traditional Portuguese song. For this piece, water and its physicality serve as the foundation for the choreography. At the same time, Zoë performs at fado concerts in France and around the world.
Floriane De Gracia lives in Paris area and makes work through dance, film and writing. She thinks of her work as ongoing research, in which performances, films and publications are acts of sharing.
Trained in classical and contemporary dance, she has been working as assistant choreographer for the duet Lotus Eddé Khouri & Christophe Macé since 2021. Her practice also draws on two research projects carried out at the universities of Paris 7 and Paris 8: the first on the intersections between popular dance and stage forms, the second on transposing danced movement to the screen.
A filmmaker, she has co-directed several films in which dance questions the place of those who watch it. As a dancer and choreographer, she works closely with other artists on performances that lean toward the intimate, bringing into play the fluctuation of our modes of presence and attention, the place of the audience, and human vulnerability.
research writings:
2D Intimacy: Four Solutions for Dance on Screen (research & film directing), Paris 8, 2019
article: "Nyota Inyoka transposed, a performance in the Live Arts rotunda, at the French National Libraby" in. Katia Légeret (dir.), Danser Nyota Inyoka et autres médiations artistiques au musée, Paris, Geuthner, 2021
The Poetics and Politics of Danced Singing in Choreographic Performance, Paris Diderot 2018
biographies
Dancer and choreographer, Zoë De Sousa approaches song and movement as a unified whole and a process of transformation.
She created her first works as part of the Ateliers at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris, under the direction of Cédric Andrieux. After completing a Master’s degree in choreographic studies, where she was mentored by Myriam Gourfink and Pauline Le Boulba, Zoë created Peaux – Troisième Hymne , a performance for seven dancers, and became an artist-in-residence at the Espace Pasolini in Valenciennes in 2021.
As a dancer, Zoë performed the solo IBM 1401 by Icelandic choreographer Erna Omarsdottir in 2018, while studying at the CNSMDP, and developed her skills with the Conservatory’s young company. She went on to work with Dominique Brun, Jérôme Bel, and Anne Collod.
Today, Zoë is actively involved in creation as a performer (for Anne Collod and Mylène Benoit), an artistic collaborator (for Eva Aubigny and Pierre Morillon), and a choreographer. In 2024, she created Le Soupir du Sable , a song-and-dance duet with her father, Philippe De Sousa, a fado guitarist, in which she revisits a personal legacy of traditional Portuguese song. For this piece, water and its physicality serve as the foundation for the choreography. At the same time, Zoë performs at fado concerts in France and around the world.
Floriane De Gracia lives in Paris area and makes work through dance, film and writing. She thinks of her work as ongoing research, in which performances, films and publications are acts of sharing.
Trained in classical and contemporary dance, she has been working as assistant choreographer for the duet Lotus Eddé Khouri & Christophe Macé since 2021. Her practice also draws on two research projects carried out at the universities of Paris 7 and Paris 8: the first on the intersections between popular dance and stage forms, the second on transposing danced movement to the screen.
A filmmaker, she has co-directed several films in which dance questions the place of those who watch it. As a dancer and choreographer, she works closely with other artists on performances that lean toward the intimate, bringing into play the fluctuation of our modes of presence and attention, the place of the audience, and human vulnerability.
research writings:
2D Intimacy: Four Solutions for Dance on Screen (research & film directing), Paris 8, 2019
article: "Nyota Inyoka transposed, a performance in the Live Arts rotunda, at the French National Libraby" in. Katia Légeret (dir.), Danser Nyota Inyoka et autres médiations artistiques au musée, Paris, Geuthner, 2021
The Poetics and Politics of Danced Singing in Choreographic Performance, Paris Diderot 2018