Marie-Pascale Lescot
Marie-Pascale Lescot is French, born in 1959. After completing a Bachelor’s Degree in French, she devoted herself to dance and trained with visiting professors from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and choreographers Susan Buirge, Twyla Tharp, Lucinda Childs and Viola Farber. Parallel to her forays into contemporary choreography, she worked with baroque dance historian Francine Lancelot.
In 1986, she was awarded a Foreign Affairs grant to study with Merce Cunningham in New York City where she also commenced her studies of journalism. Upon her return to France, she quit dance and joined television station CANAL+ where she worked as a publicist in cinema and international relations, later shifting to free-lance positions as a writer and cinema editor. Since 2002, she has developed documentary projects for production companies and works now as a writer, a journalist, a translator and a writing workshop trainer. Completed in 2009, « Feet on the Ground” is her first film as a director.
Source: SENSO FILMS
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