Research residency.
UNDER MY BLOOD: a work that explores resistance as a life force.
Four women, carried by dance, song, and Chilean and contemporary sounds, channel this energy that enables the body to rise up, to persevere, and to survive constraints—whether physical, historical, or political.
The play treats resistance as a material: a texture, a breath, a tension that flows, transforms, and reveals hidden potential. Blending personal memories with collective history, and a mix of cultures and aesthetics,UNDER MY BLOOD brings to light a form of resistance that is not merely an act, but a way of inhabiting the world.
Production
, MAGNA MATER
Co-production
Les SUBS (Lyon); Fondation Royaumont; Danse Dense
Support
, Seine-Saint-Denis Department; Théâtre de Vanves; La Gare à coulisses – a state-subsidized venue for regional street and circus arts; La POP; CND; Le Grame – National Center for Musical Creation (Lyon); Le Regard du Cygne; Micadanses; Le 104 (Paris); GMEM; KLAP — Maison pour la danse (Marseille); Beaumarchais — SACD; “la culture avec la copie privée”; DRAC Île-de-France under the 2026 decentralized grants for the performing arts
Yasminee Lepe is an artist supported by Danse Dense and a recipient of the 2025 Beaumarchais–SACD Dance Grant.
Yasminee Lepe
Dancer, choreographer
Yasminee Lepe is a Franco-Chilean dancer and choreographer born in Patagonia and trained at the National Conservatory of Chile. Her multidisciplinary career, at the intersection of dance, theater, cabaret, visual arts, circus, and street arts, has unfolded between Chile and France. Infused with feminist and ecological concerns, her work explores how bodies—individual, collective, human, and non-human—carry the history of the world and its transformations.
Clément Édouard
Composer and sound artist
Clément Édouard explores the connections between vibration, space, and the perception of sound. After twenty years of playing the saxophone, he has developed an experimental approach to composition centered on the voice, resonances, and spaces. His work takes shape through performances, installations, and stage productions, notably with the projects SEDIMENTS, FLUX, and his personal projectSEUIL.
Stéphane Valentin
Percussionist and multi-instrumentalist
Stéphanie Valentin explores traditional and popular music through Mandinka, Congolese, and Brazilian rhythms, as well as contemporary brass bands. Her artistic journey blends music, movement, and dance, drawing on her experience in live performance and contemporary dance.
Yasminee Lepe
Concept and Choreography
Ghislaine Louveau
Lucille Mansas
Stéphanie Valentin
Yasminee Lepe
performers
Clément Edouard
, composer
Élise Dabrowsky
, vocal coach
Mélanie Jouen, dramaturgy
Florencia Grisanti
masks
Daniel Bagnara
, costumes