Alice Chauchat

Alice Chauchat is a choreographer, performer and teacher based in Berlin. Performances like The Breast Piece (practicable), in collaboration with Frédéric Gies, The Love Piece, together with Ana Achimovicz, Nino Bokan, Pravdan Devlahović, Oliver Frljic, Zvonimir Kvesić, Ivana Pavlović, Ivana Rončević, Nina Sakić & Una Vizek, Crystalll in collaboration with Alix Eynaudi or J'aime with Anne Jurenhave been presented across Europe.

As a performer she worked with a.o. Juan Dominguez, Jennifer Lacey, Mårten Spångberg or Xavier le Roy.

Alice has developed numerous choreographic projects and platforms for knowledge production and exchange in the performing arts (everybodystoolbox.net, specialissue.eu, praticable etc.).

2010-12 she co-directed Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, a centre for artistic research in the Parisian suburbs.

Alice: "Togetherness holds the hand of alterity, in the impossibility of ever fully bridging the distance that exists between us whilst insisting on the attempt.

I look at group choreography as an active search for ways we can be together and produce a common: sharing a space and time, a mental frame, activity, etc.. so many elements that shape individual experience, in a tight relationship with the awareness of what exceeds one self.

I look at it as an experimental practice: every attempt raises anew the question of its structure, of the parameters upon which can we act in order to create a common, as much as the question of its tangibility. Which understanding of togetherness is being presented? How?

I develop group practices for moving and talking together with other people, building shared knowledge and experience. To invoke other groups, other situations, into the here and now of our gathering. We are many parts of many groupings, re-assembling over and over again and discovering what each particular composition can be."