Valérie Leclercq
Collaboration to the composition

Valérie Leclercq is the author of half a dozen albums released under the pseudonym Half Asleep. Her latest album, The Minute Hours / Les Heures Secondes, will be released in 2022. As a musician, she has accompanied on stage various bands such as Matt Elliott, Midget! and the ensemble 0; and lent her voice to several videos by photographer Pierre Debusschère. Co-founder of the artistic platform Ladestructiondesespacesvides (DEV), she is currently working on the production of the docu-drama podcast series Le Cerveau Volé, supported by the ACRF and the ACSR for broadcast in 2021. Valérie is also a historian. A graduate of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Yale University, she is interested in the social history of medicine and psychiatry. She is currently attached to the inter-university research project Impress, dedicated to the history of ideological conflicts in 19th century medicine.

Estelle Saignes Tilbury
Collaboration on texts and translation

Estelle Saignes is a French-American artist and textile designer who graduated from ENSAV La Cambre using performance, song and textiles to conjure immaterial spaces and immersive narratives. She has recently developed a series of tapestries and narrated performances such as The House on the Lake at Q02, Snowglobe/Underwater during the Trouble festival, 3 Lieux at La Cambre and Chez Vous at Kanal Centre Pompidou on the occasion of John Armleder's It never ends exhibition. She participates in the collective exhibitions Home street home at Montoro 12, L'Adret and l'Ubac at ENSAV La Cambre and the Graduate Show at Espace VanderBorght. Estelle Saignes is currently resident at the Moonens Foundation.

Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
Singer

Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias has been singing since he was a child and discovered dance during his studies in language sciences. In 2005-2006, he joined the first class of the Essais program at the CNDC in Angers. He has worked with Martine Pisani (FR), Myriam van Imschoot (BE), Ivana Müller (HR/FR), Begüm Erciyas (TR/DE), Yannick Guédon (FR/BE)... He has also accompanied or directed vocal experiments on projects by Mylène Benoît (FR), Nina Santes (FR), Rémy Héritier (FR)... He took part in the creation of the Sweet & Tender collaborations network. In 2010, he was awarded the DanceWeb grant and participated in the Impulstanz festival in Vienna (AT), and in 2013, in the Rencontres internationales des jeunes créateurs et critiques des arts de la scène at the FTA in Montreal (CA). In 2015, he graduated in psycho-pedagogy from MDB perception.

Ellen Giacone
Performer

Of Italian-Dutch origin, Ellen Giacone studied violin and piano before beginning to sing opera while studying biology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. She specializes in early music with internationally renowned conductors (Ton Koopman, John Eliot Gardiner). In addition to her activity as a soloist (Ensemble Athénaïs, La Fenice, Arsys Bourgogne) or in recital with piano (with Mihàly Zeke, Diego Mingolla, Giuseppe Modugno), she sings and records regularly with La Compagnie La Tempête, the Accentus choir, Les Arts Florissants and the Pygmalion Ensemble. Through the study of the double bass, she also approaches the jazz repertoire: in 2018 she recorded the disc You've never listened to the wind with AUM Grand Ensemble and founded Body & Soul Consort, a quintet between baroque music and jazz, whose first disc, I Put a Spell on You, will be released in June 2021. Ellen is fluent in Italian, French, English and Dutch.