Mélanie Perrier
Choreographer

Mélanie Perrier defends choreographic creation as the place where relationships unfold. Within the 2minimum company she founded in 2011, she leads a "relational project for dance". She rethinks choreographic writing based on renewed relationships between dance / light / sound
by creating projects for both the stage and heritage sites, with a growing concern for the spectator's sensitive experience. For over fifteen years, her approach has been nourished by the theories of Care, making her a pioneer in the field of dance, having introduced solicitude towards the spectator and the dancer. In 2015, she was awarded the Bourse SACD-Beaumarchais for "Lâche". Since 2016, she has been an associate artist at various venues: the Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, the Manège de Reims, Scène nationale de Reims, as well as Points Communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise, and recently the Théâtre Louis Aragon scène conventionnée d'intérêt national art création danse de Tremblay en France. Starting in 2025, she will embark on a new adventure at the Dôme Théâtre - scène conventionnée d'intérêt national art création d'Alberville, for a two-year period.
Considering dance as a vector for relationships inside and outside theaters, she is committed to the contemporary challenges of art for the greatest number of people. As such, for the past 15 years she has been running extensive projects that resonate with her creations, focusing on the power of the vulnerable with a wide range of audiences throughout France.

Thierry Balasse
Composer, percussionist

Sound and stage director of musical shows, composer of electroacoustic music, improviser on synthesizers, sound objects and feedback rings, sound producer for stage and record. His connection with sound began by listening to Gérard Philippe telling stories on his father's Revox C36 tape recorder, and also to some feedback and unintentional echo effects on the same machine. Later, he taught himself to play the drums. After training as a sound technician at ENSATT, he worked for the theater, mixing percussion, synthesizer and sampler. From this experience with the theater, he kept his taste for the possible links between words, text and music.
In 1989, he had a decisive encounter with Christian Zanési, then a few years later with Pierre Henry, whose loudspeaker orchestras he partnered and often performed with during the last years of the composer's life. Today, at the request of the late composer, he is trustee for the use (by him or other musicians) of Son Ré's loudspeaker orchestra according to his guidelines and artistic approach.
A 5-year residency at La Muse en Circuit directed by David Jisse and an important encounter with Sylvain Kassap, then Éric Groleau, led him to further develop his particular relationship with electroacoustic music: he seeks to reconnect with musique concrète (marked by sound matter, improvisation and the acceptance of not mastering everything), playing with space through multidiffusion, using an ever-unstable instrumentarium, and continuing to use the old analog tools (Minimoog synthesizer, tape echo chamber, spring reverb,....) and the computer, and always the use of words and poetry.
He is artistic director of the Inouïe company, a member of the Grand Ensemble, which brings together artists associated with the Scène nationale Les Quinconces - l'Espal du Mans, and will be an associate artist at the Scène Nationale de Saint Nazaire for the 25-26 and 26-27 seasons.