Sylvère Lamotte

Born in 1987, Sylvère Lamotte trained in contemporary dance at the Conservatoire national de Région de Rennes, then at the Conservatoire national de Danse de Paris. In 2007, while in his final year at Junior Ballet, he joined the Centre Chorégraphique d’Aix-en-Provence as a member of GUID (Groupe Urbain d’Intervention Dansée), a program initiated by Ballet Preljocaj.

Curious about everyone’s universe and open to diverse influences, Sylvère Lamotte works as a performer with choreographers from a wide range of backgrounds: Paco Decina, Nasser Martin Gousset, Marcia Barcellos and Karl Biscuit, Sylvain Groud, David Drouard, François Veyrunes, Alban Richard, Perrine Valli and Nicolas Hubert.

Nourished by each of these experiences, each of these languages, he retains a taste for collective creation and the blending of influences. In 2015, he founded the Lamento company, within which he explores his own avenues of work as a choreographer and performer. Particularly attached to contact dance, Sylvère Lamotte experiments in particular with ways of varying its forms.

That same year, he created Ruines in 2015, followed by Les Sauvages in 2017, L’écho d’un Infini in 2019, Tout ce fracas in 2021, Voyage au bout de l’ennui and la fabuleuse histoire de BasarKus in 2022, Danser la faille in 2023 and Gagnés par la nuit and Immobile & Rebondi #1 in 2024.

Since the company’s inception, he has collaborated extensively with final-year students from the CNDC in Angers, the CNSM in Paris and the Académie Fratellini, for whom he has created several repertory pieces. He also collaborates with the theater, notably on the play Un furieux désir de bonheur, directed by Olivier Letellier, as well as Sacre de Lorraine by Sagazan and Guillaume Poix.

Source: Cie Lamento