Carte blanche at Catol Teixeira and students from Beaux-Arts de Paris
Sunday 22 Sep 2024 from 3:15pm to 4:15pm
Free entry
Free entrance
Performer and choreographer Catol Teixeira is leading a workshop with students at the Beaux-Arts de Paris for the Échelle Humaine festival.
‘We'll be immersing ourselves in exercises to get us moving, bring out dances and identify their specificities. Based on very precise instructions, nourished by the words and performance research of Hypatia Vourloumis, we will allow our imagination and our feelings to manifest themselves, in our bodies and in the relationships we weave between ourselves. We'll meditate, sweat, take the pulse of moving pleasures and our shared presence; we'll try to give substance to our preoccupations and dance together, intimately, right up to the party’. Catol Teixeira
Born in Porto Alegre and living in Rio de Janeiro since their adolescence, Teixeira went through technical training in ballet and circus, while also being initiated to certain contemporary dance approaches. They currently develop a compositional practice as a means of translation.
Teixeira worked with dance companies in Belo Horizonte (BR) from 2013 to 2015 (Palácio das Artes, SESC MG, Mário Nascimento), as well as with the group Intrépida Trupe in Rio de Janeiro between 2010 and 2016. In 2016, Teixeira began their journey of studies and work outside Brazil—initially in Salzburg, Austria (SEAD-Bodhi Project), and later in Berlin, Germany (ROAR). In 2021, they earned a bachelor's degree in Contemporary Dance from La Manufacture Haute École des Arts de la Scène in Lausanne, Switzerland, and studied in the “work.master” program at the Geneva School of Arts (HEAD).
Since then, they have been developing choreographic and performance practices that shape the body of their dance works. Their choreographies have been presented at Pavillon ADC in Geneva, Théâtre Vidy in Lausanne, La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, Points Communs in Cergy, Festival Rakete/Tanzquartier in Vienna, Festival Actoral in Marseille, Festival Santarcangelo, Sélection Suisse at the Avignon Festival, Gessnerallee in Zurich, Istituto Svizzero in Rome, Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, among others.
Teixeira’s choreographic experimentations with dance serve as a channel for revealing nuances and tactics of coexistence and relationship. Their work weaves collaborative processes and personal inquiries. It seeks to establish an intimate dialogue between kuir (“queer”) and trans- (dis)orientations, to recall the obstinate dream of escaping the given-created plot of modernity-coloniality.
Their first group choreographic direction, arrebentação, premiered at Pavillon ADC, in November 2024, and their last solo ODE was premiered in May 2025 at Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne. In2026, Teixeira will be premiering BABY TEETH, produced in collaboration with the Comédie de Genève.