Cie Empreintes

This collection seeks to bring together a series of research and creative works that, through contemporary approaches, explore the rites and mythologies of the Caribbean, and more broadly, those emerging from diasporic histories.
We envision this space as a constellation of fragments — choreographic, visual, and sonic.
An open-ended cartography of creolized imaginaries.

Based in both Occitanie and Guadeloupe, Compagnie Empreintes is above all a space for research, dedicated to exploring the dialogue between bodies, sounds, and their memories.
Since 2020, the company has primarily supported the work of choreographer Clémence Baubant and fosters cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists from the fields of choreography, music, and visual arts.

Clémence Baupant

Nourished by her Caribbean roots, Clémence Baubant has a rhizomatic nature.
She cultivates a taste for metamorphosis, protean objects, imbalance, tipping points, and the elusive.
Weaving an ongoing obsession with questions of memory, trace, and transmission, her work explores identity as a space of friction and porosity between bodies. The notion of transversality has always been at the heart of her dialogue with choreography.

Trained in classical dance at the Toulouse Conservatory, she broadened her practice at the Centre Off Jazz in Nice, the Alvin Ailey Dance Center in New York, and P.A.R.T.S in Belgium. She holds a State Diploma in dance education from the Higher Institute of Arts in Toulouse and, in 2011, pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Language Sciences at the University of Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès.

Her work first developed within collective dynamics and later through the company Empreintes, which has supported her projects, particularly since 2020.

In 2019, she was selected as a choreographer for the “Prototype VI” training and research program at the Royaumont Abbey. During this residency, she encountered the work of Hervé Robbe, Jean-Christophe Paré, and Béatrice Massin.
In 2021, she was awarded selective funding from the French Ministry of Culture to support podcast and radio creation, for the sound documentary project Déboulé – Mémoires de Carnaval, created with composer Paul Ramage.
In 2022, she was a finalist for the choreographic competition Danse Élargie with her project TRIBU[T], one of 18 selected international creations out of 453 submissions, performed on the stage of the Théâtre de la Ville – Paris.

Since 2022, she has also been an associate artist with the research laboratory LLA CREATIS at the University of Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès.