Maud Blandel

Trained initially in contemporary dance, then in stage directing (La Manufacture, Lausanne) and visual arts (HEAD, Geneva), Maud Blandel has been developing her own choreographic works since 2015. Each of her pieces is grounded in a conceptual musical framework, used to embody and shape phenomena altered by the passage of time. She thus explores the notion of the sacrificed body and the staging of the female body (TOUCH DOWN, 2015), the folklorisation of popular dance practices (Lignes de conduite, 2018), and the “killing” of time through a form of 17th-century musical entertainment known as the divertimento (Diverti Menti, 2020). Alongside her own work, she collaborates with or assists artists such as Cindy Van Acker, Karim Bel Kacem, Heiner Goebbels, and Romeo Castellucci. She presented her piece L’œil nu at the Festival d’Avignon with the Sélection suisse en Avignon in 2023, then at the Festival d’Automne in 2024. Maud Blandel is an artist in residence at Arsenic (Lausanne) and is supported by Parallèle (Marseille).