Laure Bonicel

After training at the CNDC, Angers and performing from 1989 to 1998 with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Odile Duboc and Mark Tompkins, Laure Bonicel began her own choreographic research in 1992 and founded the Moleskine company in 1993.

Her work is perfused by the question of identity, tackled by means of the image, the game of constructing the being from accumulated fragments.
Her work on the body-subject / body-object induces a systematic rapport between the body and stage make-up, clothing, props, cross-dressing and transformation.

Early on, Laure Bonicel developed her artistic approach by using means and resolutions that were as sculptural as they were choreographic. She honed this method through topical pieces which deploy a performance language close to that of sculptural installation. The dancers’ bodies are choreographed as if they were moving sculptures. To achieve this, Laure Bonicel employs graphic techniques and regularly uses a process of stretched time to allow the passage from form to formless.

Laure Bonicel is also concerned with how her approach is communicated to the audience. This led her to offer to compose, in partnership with host organisations, a programme specific to each one, presenting several pieces spread over the year and in different performance spaces. These programmes are associated with encounters and practical workshops relating to the creative work, which she leads with the company’s artistic collaborators.

Source : Moleskine website

Updating: March 2010