Laurence Marthouret
Choreographer, teacher
Her artistic approach is a perpetual exploration of the body and its perceptions. She questions and reflects on the human position in the world. She uses technology and images to immerse the body in specific environments.
Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Laurence studied Laban movement writing with Jacqueline Challet-Haas. She studied the Laban-Bartenieff movement analysis technique with Marie-Christine Gheorghiu, with whom she collaborated for several years.
Aware of the importance of somatic practices in dancers' careers, she trained with Véra Orlock in Body Mind Centering and Release Technic with members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company: Greg Lara, Shelley Center and Irène Ultman.
She then worked as a performer in Myriam Gourfink's company, collaborating with computer scientist Frédéric Voisin on the creation of LOL, a choreographic composition software based on Laban movement notation. In 2001, she became an associate researcher at ACI Jeunes Chercheurs-Espaces Sonores, Centre de recherche en informatique et création musicale (CICM) at the University of Paris VIII, working with Anne Sedes on Espaces Sonores interactive with dance movement and sound visualization.
Between 1999 and 2005, she studied choreographic composition at the Centre de Recherche et Composition Chorégraphique de l'Abbaye de Royaumont under the direction of Susan Buirge, and in 2005 was a prizewinner in the Grand Atelier chorégraphes-compositeurs de Voix Nouvelles.
The relationship between music and dance is a fundamental area of research in her practice. She has collaborated with a number of composers: Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber, Victoria Harmandjieva, Francesco Filidei, Anne Sedes, and it is with Patrick Marcland that she will work in particular on the reflection of a common writing style between dance and music.

Patrick Marcland
Composer
Patrick Marcland was born in Paris and has lived in Nice since 2010. He has received the Georges Enesco Prize and numerous commissions from the French government, Radio France, Ircam, and various ensembles and orchestras, including Itinéraire, Groupe Vocal de France, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Percussions de Strasbourg, Maîtrise de Radio France, Musicatreize, TM+, Apostrophe, etc.., the Philharmonie de Lorraine, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France.
At Pierre Boulez's invitation, he wrote a number of pieces for the Ensemble Intercontemporain: "Variants", then "Versets", "Etude", "De Temps en Temps", for viola and ensemble, "Eclipsis", for trumpet and viola with electronics, "Soleá", for horn, bassoon, harp and double bass, "Eclipsis déployé" for principal viola and 6 instruments with electronics. Other collaborations include Ensemble TM+ ("Vocables", for mezzo-soprano and ensemble), Quatuor Stanislas ("De Cristal et de Brume", Ensemble Apostrophe ("La Ligne d'Ombre", after Joseph Conrad, for ensemble and electronics (2013). Finally "Mazeppa", a sung monodrama for soprano and ensemble, commissioned by the Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo, premiered in Monaco in March 2017, with Ensemble C Barré.
He has also collaborated over the years with several choreographers, including Odile Duboc, Elisabeth Schwartz, Nadine Hernu, Sara Pardo, Susan Buirge and Laurence Marthouret, with whom he has been developing a specific work on the dance-music relationship for over ten years, in several choreographic pieces including ''Walk'', ''Monade'', ''Meltem'', ''Seule''.
A monographic CD entitled ''Patrick Marcland 8 SOLOS'' was released in January 2012 on the Sismal Records label, with soloists from the Ensemble InterContemporain.
In 2019, with two other composers, he will create the Nice-based Ensemble Inicia!, dedicated to contemporary writing.