Raphaëlle Delaunay

‘I rarely turn round to see if I’m being followed. If someone is dancing behind me, they’re dancing in my shadow. For a long time I didn’t want to see the traces I left behind me. I still don’t know what that fear was. Maybe it was the need to escape being classified, identified.

Always ahead!

And then this digital breakaway makes me want to share the route I’m lucky enough to have. It’s a journey of instinct, of the desire to constantly discover new terrain, new bodies, new ways of doing and thinking.

Being here and there in a world that constantly asks you to identify yourself seemed to me to be an opportunity: an opportunity for richness, eclecticism, variety of forms and curiosity.

I started at the age of 10 at the Paris Opera, which I left at 20 to dance with Pina Bausch, then with Alain Platel, then… then… then… my own creations with themes as different as… and right up to this work on icons such as Joséphine Baker, Michael Jackson or Beyoncé.

It’s this diversity that I want to tell you about in movement, in the joy of dance, in the shifts that my life as a dancer takes me on.

This is the moment I’m offering you, the moment of a body going through very different, not to say contradictory, states, the moment of a body searching… And with a single aim, to continue to discover and nourish my insatiable desire to dance. ’

Raphaëlle Delaunay

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