Alix Denambride
Author, director and actress
Artistic director of Compagnie sous X
She studied performing arts and modern literature at the Université Lumière Lyon II, and trained in dramatic art at the ENM in Villeurbanne and in various workshops (Guy Naigeon, Alexandre Del Perugia, Laurence Mayor, Yves-Noël Genod...). Wishing to turn to directing, she was assistant director from 2010 to 2012 for Éric Massé and Angélique Clairand (Cie des Lumas) and Mark Tompkins (Cie I.D.A.). Enthralled by the dynamics of new forms of creation in public spaces, in 2011 she joined the FAI-AR (Formation Supérieure d'Art en Espace Public). Since then, she has been exploring spaces not intended for performance, through writing that questions the potential theatricality of reality. She created No Visa for this Country in 2014 (In Festival d'Aurillac in 2015) and Terre Commune in 2017 (In Festival Chalon dans la Rue).
She co-wrote, with Emmanuel Vigier, the book Terres Communes Vies et morts dans la rue, du web-doc au théâtre, une traversée documentaire, the third opus in a trilogy recounting their documentary journey (published by Éditions Deuxième époque in April 2022).
At the same time, she pursues her work as a performer at events in specific venues such as hotels, notably Conversation with a stranger in Brussels (Belgium) in 2013 and Hotel Obscura in Vienna (Austria) in 2015. She also works for other artists as an assistant, outsider or actor, in France and abroad (Collectif Orbe, le blÖffique Théâtre, l'Agence de Géographie Affective, KompleXKapharnaüM, Judith Nab, Loop-s, GK Collective, La Fabrique Fastidieuse, 1 Watt, KMK...). She is a regular contributor to FAI-AR.

Julie Rousse
Sound artist, performer and electroacoustic composer
A passionate phonographer, she is always on the lookout for new field recordings - sounds from the field. Inspired by notions of space, ritual and ecology, she uses her sound collection in her practice of free improvisation using a digital real-time sound processing platform. Laureate of the Institut Français in 2015, she refines her work around sound ecology: her latest works question our place in the universe or alongside a complex ecosystem such as the river. Research, explorations, recordings and compositions converge on a particular attention to the world through sound, from the banks of the Rhône to the cosmos. She bases her research on scientific aspects, drawing her sources from real-life experience in order to convey them sensitively in sound works, mixing pure sounds from the field with experimental interpretation. Digging into raw material in search of textures and rhythms, she creates teeming, immersive pieces with sounds recorded in-situ, deployed for a specific project, at a specific moment. Since 2001, her work has been shown internationally at major events, festivals and venues dedicated to digital arts and experimental music, in installations and sound performances, solo or in collaboration with artists from the experimental scene from Afghanistan to Chile.

Alice Ruffini
Multidisciplinary artist
Trained at the École des Beaux Arts d'Angers and the Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Dresden, Germany (2006-2011). Joined the 4th class of FAIAR, (Formation supérieur d'art en espace public) in Marseille (2011-2013). Her work focuses on living, movement and travel. She explores and puts into dialogue places, people and stories. Shifting the gaze, being in physical movement for an exploration that nourishes the creation of an elsewhere that may be just down the road. Visual, sensory and sound creation are all approaches that enable her to construct a poetic by blending sensitivity, imagination and intuition. She collaborates with a number of artists in the field of art in public spaces: Lotte van den Berg, Blöffique Théatre, Amanda Pola, Floriane Facchini, Face o scéno, Willi Dörner, Agence de Géographie Affective... And builds her own projects with the support of Atelier Andaere and the association Degrés 127. Creation of Zahaba kinetic performance on a bicycle in 2014; Comme les nuages qui changent de forme in situ installation supported by Galerie 5 and CNAR La Paperie in 2016; co-writing and editing of the Taaga Kana project creative residency in movement on a train between Ouagadougou and Abidjan in 2015-2016; Guest artist for the EMERGING SPACES "Audience Engagement" platform in Pilsen organized by IN SITU Network in 2015; Creation of Roues Libres specific creation in the Monplaisir district of Angers with CNAR la Paperie in 2015; Envol en bordure de... carte blanche associated with Christophe Modica and Olivier Villanove in Savenay with CNAR la Paperie in 2016; Boursière des Ateliers Médicis for Création en cours, Des petits trajets qui parlent de grands voyages in Marcolès Cantal in 2018; Creation of Paysage à découper a visual exploration in situ in Marseille in several neighborhoods in 2019-2020, this project is part of the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur's "Entrée des artistes" program in association with Arts et développements and Môm'Sud. The project will be presented as part of Voyage émoi at the Mucem in 2020.

Aude Schmitter
Author, Director and Actress
After graduating from ERACM (École nationale supérieure d'acteurs de Cannes et Marseille) in 2011, Aude Schmitter worked as an actress, author and assistant director for several companies (Mabel Octobre, Emile Saar, Diphtongue and Pré-O-Coupé), bringing her into contact with different aesthetics and disciplines. She regularly leads artistic workshops in schools, in connection with her creations. From 2017, she worked with companies in public spaces, for the Désorceler la finance projects of the Belgian collective Loop-s, as well as writing Vivants for the Les Fugaces company.
A State Diploma graduate, she is a full-time teaching artist at the CRR de Douai, from 2017 to 2019, where she teaches theater to different audiences (conservatory, college, social center). She completes her training at FAI-AR (Formation supérieure aux arts de la rue, Marseille), after which she becomes artistic director of La Berroca in 2021 and creates PLS, Prendre Le Soin in 2023.
She continues to collaborate in theatres and public spaces with the J'ai vu Louisa company, the Compagnie sous X, the Collectif Sismique (circus), the Le souffleur de Verre company, the Collectif Super Surface and the Akalmie Celsius company, writing Maisons and Celles et ceux qui bâtissent.
In February 2024, she joins the Dodeskaden association for an artistic residency and creative workshops with local residents at the Vallée de l'Huveaune social center in Marseille.

La Compagnie sous X
By wearing the letter X, I demonstrate my freedom to be plural, multiple, variable and contradictory. I bring together artists and specialists from different backgrounds (directors, choreographers, sound designers, documentary filmmakers, photographers, sociologists, architects, urban planners, etc.). In this variable-geometry group, processes are resolutely collaborative.
I propose to explore different forms of theater through writing and staging. By theater, I mean a narrative involving figures and/or characters, and spectators in a common space. Stage set-ups are invented according to the place I wish to give to those watching. These spaces, whether indoors or out, are not dedicated to performance. My approach is curious about the accidents and creative constraints that rub up against reality. My work is the fruit of contexts, and all these natural, social and cultural conditions form the backdrop against which my dramas are played out.
My writing is based on archives and documentary material. Investigative work is the foundation. The forms I present question the link between document and fiction, and the potential theatricality of reality. In the course of my work, I've developed a real ability to integrate sensitively with spaces and audiences. Some of my works are identifiable by their essential temporal and human involvement in territories. I assert this temporality, since it contributes to understanding the context and creating the link that enables me to connect with the space and the people who inhabit it. At the heart of my work: the desire to speak about under-represented subjects, people and places.