Michel Kelemenis
choreographer, director of KLAP Maison pour la danse

Michel Kelemenis began dancing in Marseille at the age of 17. A professional dancer since 1983 with Dominique Bagouet, he immediately wrote his first choreographies: he founded Kelemenis&cie in 1987. In love with movement and dancers, with those exceptional moments when the gesture turns into the role, he articulates his numerous creations on the search for a balance between abstraction and figuration. Guest choreographer with major ballet companies, involved in training and international cooperation, his career is rich in exchanges and collaborations, particularly in the field of music. As a builder, he conceptualized and brought to fruition KLAP Maison pour la danse in Marseille, a facility designed for and dedicated to the creation and development of choreographic culture. Since its inauguration in October 2011, he has been in charge of the project to host and give visibility to numerous companies. Michel Kelemenis is notably a member of the boards of directors of the National School of Dance of Marseille, and of Coline - training for contemporary dance performers in Istres. The biennial artistic crossroads BOUGE is a salient transposition, adapted for KLAP Maison pour la danse, of his commitment to professional dance training. Recent works: La Barbe Bleue in 2015, Coup de Grâce in 2019, Légende in 2021.

HervéRobbe
dancer, choreographer

Hervé Robbe trained at Mudra and founded his first company, the Marietta Secret, in 1987. Associate artist at the Quartz (Brest) and then director of the CCN of Le Havre from 1999 to 2012, he now continues his adventure as an artist and teacher within the Travelling&Co company where the privileged relationships he has with architecture, the plastic arts and images, and the original dialogues he develops with music color his various projects. From 2017 to 2019, he is an associate artist at the CNDC in Angers. Since 2013, he has directed the Pôle Création chorégraphique of the Fondation Royaumont.

Jérôme Combier
composer and artistic director of the Ensemble Cairn

Jérôme Combier graduated from the CNSMD in Paris in the classes of composition, orchestration and musical analysis. He has collaborated with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the BBC Wales, and with the ensembles Ictus, 2e2m, Accroche Note... He regularly performs in France and abroad: Abbaye de Royaumont, University of Berkeley, Unesp of Soa Paulo and McGill of Montreal, Conservatories of Antwerp, Liege, Lugano... He is a teacher in sound and musical creation at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de Paris-Cergy. Several times awarded, his music is published by Lemoine and Verlag Neue Musik (Berlin), recorded by Motus and Æon labels.

Alexandre Martre
technical director, engineer

Technical referent for Kelemenis&cie, he accompanied the creation of KLAP Maison pour la danse and became its technical director at its opening. He has been the general and lighting manager for many touring companies, and also hosts shows for theaters and festivals. Lighting designer, he participates in creations for dance (Michel Kelemenis, Désiré Davids...), theater (Cie Tandaim, Le bruit des nuages, Cie de la vallée...), opera (Concerto Soave), experimental music (GMEM). He is currently collaborating on the creation project of the new CDN of Thionville, as technical referent for the mastery of use.

Manon Avram
choreographer

Manon Avram founded the Collectif KO.com in 2001. She is now the author of 14 pieces and 8 installations, programmed in France and abroad. She progressively concentrates on the place of the body in society, inscribing physical words as sources of testimonies and develops her practice towards a close writing between movement, image and text.

Sylvain Huc
choreographer

Trained as a historian, Sylvain Huc discovered contemporary dance in an abrupt and unexpected way. Performer and choreographer, his work is characterized by a rigorous physical approach, very attached to the body rather than to the dance itself. Presented in France, Europe and internationally, his pieces forge a singular choreographic work that privileges the body, its states in strong interaction with sound and light. If the body is at the center of his work, Sylvain Huc likes to put it in relation with a delicate or brutal environment. He thus creates a fabric of sensations and emotions with which the body deploys itself at the same time learned and wild.

François Parra
sound artist

Born in 1968, he lives in Marseille. François Parra was trained as a visual artist and works with sound in its relationship to space. He first created sound production interfaces linked to his body, until they progressively occupied the space in an autonomous way. Trained in the techniques of digital audio in the GMEM studios in Marseille, his encounters with certain composers have led him to concern himself with questions of temporal writing, while maintaining a visual artist's vocabulary. The sound is above all for him a material restructuring indefinitely the space, and thus modifying our social relationship. With the evolution of technologies, he proposes to the public to manipulate, first by the use of gestural sensors, then by the use of interfaces conceived for the Web, programs which capture certain types of sounds and integrates them in compositions. He is or has been a member of several artists' collectives, Daisychain, NøDJ/NøVJ, Cap15, Chœur Tac-Til, PACE. He teaches digital audio at ESA-Aix and works regularly for live performance, radio and video. He has been studying electroacoustic composition at the Cité de la Musique in Marseille since 2019.

Alexandre Ollivier
sound artist

Alexandre Ollivier was born in Brest and based in Marseille since 2009. He began by creating electronic music and signed under different aliases several EPs before joining the electroacoustic curriculum of the conservatory of Marseille in 2018. His concrete and experimental music project Whadat XP engages the listener's listening and imagination by proposing various immersive sound experiences in quadraphonic, headphone or Acousmonium devices. He collaborates on various interdisciplinary projects (video, scenography, radio, short films, dance, installations). Sensitive to the ecological and political themes of the modern world, Alexandre Ollivier has composed various sound pieces(Modern slavery, To rurality, EXPHLLWAY001, B15 - Inner informations...) questioning our relationship to work, society and the living. At the beginning of 2022, he created with Matthieu Perrin the Acousmonium Chapelle Sonore.