Anna Gaïotti 
Performer, musician, tap dancer, writer 
Anna Gaïotti creates a choreographic and musical language that connects text and body. She aims to explore the question of gendered emancipation, doubts regarding norms, the primacy of fiction over reality, the construction and deconstruction of personal and collective identities, and life in the face of death. The body is first and foremost a medium for expressing poetry, a form of activism, embodying both humanity and inhumanity. She collaborates and creates experimental noise music with female musicians. — www.annagaiotti.com 

Clément De Boever 
Acoustician, F.M. Alexander® Technique teacher, and dancer 
Clément explores the connections between somatic practice, dance, and paid work by observing the body-mind relationship, the experience of self-awareness, relationships with others, the environment, and societal norms, and the openness to the unknown that this discipline fosters. After studying acoustics and vibrations at the University of Le Mans, he worked for a time in the automotive sector at Hutchinson in Montargis, then joined the RATP laboratory in Paris. At the same time, he trained in the F.M. Alexander® Technique. Having earned his teaching certification in 2017, he offers private lessons and corporate workshops and continues to explore, both in daily life and through exchanges, the richness of this somatic education technique. He has also been training in dance and performance since 2013, participating in numerous workshops (Damien Fournier, Maud Le Pladec, Benoît Lachambre, Antonija Livingstone, Miguel Gutierrez, Bryan Campbell, Sherwood Chen, Anna Gaïotti...) and regular classes, and by taking part in the creations of Johan Amselem, Sébastien Perrault, Nans Martin, Andreya Ouamba, Yvann Alexandre, and Fernando Cabral.

Léo Dupleix 
Composer and musician 
Léo Dupleix studied jazz piano at the Brussels Conservatory. He founded The Unrevealed Society, a jazz group that has won awards at several festivals (Ghent Jazz, XL Jazz)... 
In 2014, he moved to Tokyo, where he devoted himself to sound improvisation, using a computer and programming in Max/MSP, which became his primary tools of the trade. He performed in numerous concerts and collaborations with musicians from Tokyo’s experimental music scene, as well as European and American artists visiting the archipelago; and he creates electronic compositions inspired by the country and its sonic and intellectual landscapes, which have left a profound mark on him. Since his return to Paris in 2016, he has collaborated with VIERGE NOIR E, Félicie Bazelaire, Bertrand Denzler, Lauri Hyvärinen, Francesco Pastacaldi, Pascal Battus, Taku Sugimoto... with whom he pursues multifaceted work addressing both musical and extra-musical challenges (performance, experimental instrument-making, exploration of the boundaries between composition and improvisation, etc.), and composes music for ensembles in France and Japan.
He is engaged in a co-composition project with the Danish composer and researcher Simon Roy Christensen, with whom he collaborates on the long-term project“precess.” 
He composes the music for Rémi Allier’s films: Zinneke (Locarno, Ghent Film Festival),Les petites mains (César Award for Best Short Film, music awards at the Alès and Aubagne festivals, etc.). — www.leodupleix.fr 

Jean Bender 
Composer and musician 
Jean Bender began his journey in music and sound experimentation with circuit bending and DIY fabrication in 2000, repurposing or misusing instruments and objects (toys, everyday items). He performs primarily solo across various noise music scenes—noise and harsh noise in France—ranging from free parties and squats to museums and art galleries. His work plays on the layering of frequencies and repetition, revealing intricate rhythmic patterns and the physicality of sound. He seeks to immerse the audience in a dancing body where noise becomes beats, an opium-like sensation where time expands and vanishes.
Currently, he explores sound with a modular setup and cassettes, leaning toward ambient music based on electromagnetic phenomena. He collaborates with Cogne et Foutre, ::VTOL, Fa Cesario, William Nurdin, Tzii, Olivier Zol, among others, preferring live performance to recording.
In 2021, he decided to release a vinyl record of a collaboration that had remained in draft form with the late Cabine Volcan.
Jean Bender leads numerous circuit-bending and electronic instrument-making workshops with AxeDelbor and the HAK loi RECORD collective. He organizes many events and concerts at Grrrnd Zero in Lyon (Bruit est amour). —www.hearthis.at/jean-bender

Sonia Saroya 
Lighting Designer 
After earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Media, Design, and Contemporary Art from Paris 8 University (Vincennes-Saint-Denis), Sonia Saroya has developed a delicate and understated world where landscapes and underground, industrial, or natural environments resonate with questions drawn from the humanities, philosophy, and low-tech technologies. Her work consists of installations situated at the intersection of sculpture, digital art, and sound art. She creates sound sculptures that blend jewelry craftsmanship with electronic circuits, as well as autonomous sound devices—a sort of “tool-artwork”—that enable the creation of sound journeys and walks. In this way, she seeks to question the paradoxes of our contemporary societies while reconsidering our possibilities for action and our know-how. 
Sonia Saroya is also involved in organizing independent collective projects. By taking over marginal spaces, she explores ways to decondition the experience of the work and the place, while examining the relationship between artists and audiences. At the same time, she promotes the accessibility of her practices by sharing her reflections, techniques, and tools through teaching engagements. — www.soniasaroya.com 

Agathe Patonnier 
Lighting Designer, Stage Manager 
All the skills she acquired throughout her career—beginning at the School of Visual Arts, moving on to coordinating international projects, and then working as a projectionist—led her to the role of lighting technician, which she first encountered in 2010 on two productions by Alain Gautré: *Impasse des Anges* (which he wrote) and *Le Malade Imaginaire* (by Molière). She then trained for this profession in 2011 at the CFPTS in Paris. Upon completing this training, she joined the second year of the tour for Le Malade Imaginaire, and has continued to work with Alain Gautré ever since, notably on his solopiece Le Gai Savoir du Clown. 
In addition to stage management, she also creates lighting designs for several companies, such as Les Filles de l’Ogre (and its two shows directed by Marie Ballet). From 2013 to 2019, she collaborated with Compagnie La Rousse (Nathalie Bensard) as stage manager and lighting designer for some of its shows for young audiences (À Vue de Nez [stage management],Virginia Wolf [lighting design and stage management]). 
In 2018, she met the Krumple collective and took over stage management for the show YOKAI - Remedy for Despair, followed by the show Déjà. In 2021 and 2023, she will design the lighting for two solo performances staged by members of the collective: SOLA (by and with Vincent Vernerie), andPigeon Superstition (by and with David Tholander).
In 2019, she joined Kelly Rivière’s team and her show An Irish Story (Cie Innisfree) as tour stage manager, as well as choreographer Tatiana Julien’s team (Cie Interscribo) for her solo Soulèvement andthe show AFTER, written for eight dancers. She co-designed the lighting with Kevin Briard for the duo Une Nuit Entière, written and performed by Tatiana Julien and Anna Gaïotti. This year, the adventure continues with the productionEN FANFAAARE!. 
In addition to theater and dance, she also creates flash lighting designs for festivals (notably with Gigors Electric in the Drôme region), as well as carte blanche projects, and designs for singers on the FRACA label such as Emilie Marsh, Angèle Osinski, Julie Gasnier, and their friends in PUR SANG, and tours regularly with Katel. 

Christophe Cardoen 
Lighting designer, set designer 
Christophe Cardoen creates and presents installations; he uses light, movement, and sound; he builds devices, lighting fixtures, objects, and spaces. By combining electromechanical devices, shutters, or reflective surfaces with light sources, he creates variations in rhythm and patterns of bright light in deep darkness, testing our visual perceptions of time and place.