Collectif Ès

Artistic direction : Sidonie Duret, Émilie Szikora and Jeremy Martinez

Creation: 2011

Collectif ÈS was founded at the initiative of Sidonie, Jeremy and Emilie, who met while enrolled at the CNSMD in Lyon.
In 2011, they decided to get together to try creating together and created their first work, P’Lay’s, for four performers. Drawing on their bond, they developed the idea of being creators-performers in a second creation in 2014, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie*.     

“Our first artistic choice was the group creation. It’s a commitment that we naturally made and which leads to genuine daily reflection, a constant questioning of the group work that we bring to the stage: the sharing of ideas, bodies and energies that go beyond our individualities. We have chosen to be creator-performers to develop this collective commitment. The word, born of a common desire, is the point of departure for the creation. We want it to motivate each proposal, to inspire new paths for the body, new points of view: by investing the flesh, we want the movement to be imprinted with a genuine physical search. Our choreographic writing reflects our collective experience; three identities nourish the collective work and this collective entity nourishes our identities, a loop that illustrates the choreographic writing of Collectif ÈS: assemblies, overlays, declension and deconstruction.”

Source : Collectif Ès ‘s website

More information : escollectif.com