Gaëlle Bourges

Gaëlle Bourges’ work shows a pronounced inclination for references to art history, and a critical relationship with the history of representations: Her works include the triptych Vider Vénus (a digression on female nudes in Western painting); À mon seul désir (on the figure of virginity in the tapestry of ‘La Dame à la licorne’), presented at the In d’Avignon festival (2015); Lascaux, then Revoir Lascaux (its version for all audiences) about the discovery of the eponymous cave; Conjurer la peur, based on the fresco of ‘good and bad government’ painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena; Incidence 1327, about Petrarch’s encounter with Laure, a performance co-written with visual artist Gwendoline Robin (‘Sujet à Vif’, Festival d’Avignon 2018); Ce que tu vois, based on the Angers Apocalypse hanging; OVTR (ON VA TOUT RENDRE), about the looting of the Acropolis by a British ambassador to Athens in the early 19th century; Confluence n°… with Gwendoline Robin, about the moons of Jupiter and the figure of Galileo; LOULOU (la petite pelisse), commissioned as part of La Fabrique des écritures / Cie Les Fêtes Galantes – Béatrice Massin, which pokes fun at the relationship between naked bodies and furs based on a painting by Rubens.

Gaëlle Bourges is also a graduate of from the University of Paris 8 – with a major in dance; in ‘Somatic Education through Movement’ – School of Body-Mind Centering; and occasionally works on theoretical issues in dance. She has also trained in music, commedia dell’arte, clowning and drama. For several years she founded and ran a musical comedy company for and with children (the Théâtre du Snark); she has worked as a stage manager at the BNF and as a stripper in an erotic theatre.
Source : Maison de la danse