Maud Blandel

Maud Blandel is a dancer who was trained in staging practices (in La Manufacture) and visual arts (in HEAD), and who created her company in 2015 in Lausanne. Her choreographic language is inspired by several artforms, anthropology, cultural studies and music. Her fascination for transformation and musicality led her to create pieces with a strong composition where we can witness the slow degeneration of the phenomena performed on stage. Blandel works on the idea of a sacrificial body and the female body as spectacle through the figure of the cheerleader (TOUCH DOWN, 2015), the folklorization of popular dance (Lignes de conduite, 2018), and the death of time via an 18th century musical entertainment form named Divertimento (Diverti Menti, 2020). She also works as an assistant with artists such as Cindy Van Acker, Karim Bel Kacem, Heiner Goebbels and Romeo Castellucci. Blandel is the resident artist in l’Arsenic (Lausanne) and her work has been produced and promoted by Parallèle (Marseille) since 2016.