Maud Blandel

Trained in contemporary dance in Toulouse, Maud Blandel joins the first MA class in Scenic Arts Direction at la Manufacture – HETSR in Lausanne. During her studies, she works with Robert Cantarella, Milo Rau, Jean-Yves Ruf and Franck Vercruyssen (TG Stan). She creates a first short piece called I would rather die than wear a dress, accompanied by the collective Das Plateau.

In September 2013, she directs Ote donc le serpent que tu as dans ta culotte – conférence-spectaculaire sur nos corps hystériques. The project represents the starting point of her research on knowledgetransmitting structures. Alongside this, she joins the artists Karim Bel Kacem and Thibaut Evrard on the project You will never walk alone, a conference-performance created at the Festival Belluard in Fribourg last July. They have since collaborated on the Sport Spectacle Project, developed at the Théâtre Saint-Gervais, for which they create CHEER LEADER in June 2015.

Wishing to pursue her interrogations concerning the political representations of the female body, she creates TOUCH DOWN at the Arsenic in Lausanne before performing the piece in Geneva and in Marseille during the Festival Parallèle 2016. She was part of the artist’s lab during Julidans in Amsterdam and will present a performance next July for the new edition of the Festival. She will assist Rachid Ouramdane for his next creation at the Opéra de Nancy with le Ballet de Lorraine. Maud Blandel is a resident artist at the Théâtre de Saint-Gervais in Geneva.