Myriam Gourfink

Myriam Gourfink is a dancer and choreographer whose research focuses on the writing of movement. Based on yoga breathing techniques, her dance is structured through a rigorous organisation of weight-bearing and a heightened awareness of space. This understanding of movement and spatiality allows her to design choreographies without a preliminary workshop phase, where each piece invites performers to remain conscious of their actions and of what moves through them. She has been invited to numerous international festivals, including Springdance in New York, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, La Bâtie Festival in Geneva, and Danças na Cidade in Lisbon. From 2008 to 2013, she directed the Programme de Recherche et de Composition Chorégraphiques at Royaumont Abbey and Foundation, and in 2012 curated the cycle Les danses augmentées at the Gaîté Lyrique. Supported by the Centre Pompidou since 1999, her work was the subject of a focus entitled Les formes du temps for the opening of the Centre Pompidou x Westbund Museum Project in Shanghai in 2019. In 2019 and 2024, she presented projects at the Festival d’Automne in heritage and museum spaces.