Johanna Faye

When conventional language falls short, the body,  inhabited by the senses, becomes a vehicle for stories and  dialog-building between the protagonists. Finding a middle ground  through movement is among the objectives central to Johanna Faye’s  creative gesture. The resulting conversation stems from the  choreographer’s multiple sources of inspiration, where the importance of  the relationship to the dance floor, rooted in her practice as a b-girl, is coupled with verticality and a sensory approach to contemporary dance.

Johanna Faye strives to rehabilitate this non-verbal language as a  need to draw our attention back to our instinctive sense of self.  Starting with Iskio (2015), her first choreographic attempt  written and performed as a duo with Saïdo Lehlouh, Johanna explores a  one-on-one relationship, where otherness becomes a foothold for the  individual. Moving from a duo to a group, the two members of the Black  Sheep dance company take it to the next level in Fact (2017), a  piece for seven performers in which both the human and material  environments prompt the dancers to reshape their mutual interactions in  motion.

Lastly, Johanna Faye finds a narrative balance to her inaugural  independent piece in the magic number represented by the trio. Meaning  literally “far within” or “away from” in Portuguese, Afastado Em (2018) traces the intertwining paths of three female dancers, each representing a divergent practice: flamenco, Krumping,  and contemporary dance. In a decelerating tug-of-war, the piece figures  an introspective insight into the characters through an external  gesture, such as the act of contemplative breathing in tandem.

Together, Johanna Faye and Saïdo Lehlouh created Earthbound (2021),  a celebration through dance of the rebel and underground hip hop  scene’s diversity which questions the stage’s performative codes.  Emerging from her encounter with clarinetist Guillaume Humery, jazz  pianist Léo Jassef and dancer-jiujitsuka Julien Fouché, Inner (2022) is a shared introspection where body and music echo each other spontaneously.

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