Mié Coquempot

The French-Japanese choreographer, Mié Coquempot, studied various dance techniques between 1976 and 1988: ballet, tap-dancing, Graham, Limon, traditional Japanese dance, jazz, modern jazz, contemporary dance. At the same time, she studied music at the Geneva Conservatoire de Musique. In 1987, at the age of 16, she joined the Junior Stepping Out Jazz Dance Company, then in 1989, she left for New York to continue her training at the Juilliard School. In 1990, she settled in Paris where she joined the Redha Benteifour’s company. Since then she has danced for a myriad of choreographers and directors including Peter Goss, Daniel Larrieu (CCN & Astrakan), William Forsythe, Odile Duboc (CCN), to name but a few. 

She began producing her own choreographic works in 1995 and founded the K622 Company in 1998. K622’s repertoire comprises around twenty opuses in various formats produced, created and performed in France and abroad. She was Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, Japan) prize-winner in 2002, along with Jérôme Andrieu.

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