Anne-Marie Porras

One of those rare choreographers who travel the world of jazz dance, ANNE-MARIE PORRAS has built her career working with some of the most important choreographers, such as the American WALTER NICKS and the Germans INGEBORG LIPTAY and JORG LANNER. She owes her technique to the schools of ALVIN AILEY, MARTHA GRAHAM and MERCE CUNNINGHAM.

Her first creation is ‘Turn on to Mangione’ in collaboration with RICHARD JONES for the MAURICE BÉJART Conservatoire.

CLAUDE LELOUCH entrusted her with the choreography of the French part of his film ‘Les Uns et les Autres’.

This was followed by ‘Voyages’ for Montreal’s Focus on Jazz and ‘Transit’ for the Montpellier Danse Festival (1985).

From then on she focused on her own company, regularly adding new works to her repertoire.

These works are based on universal themes, modulated on a range of energies that are sometimes dazzling and sometimes hushed.

They have toured throughout France, Africa, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean.

Her work can also be defined as follows:

‘Based on gentle, present accents, a dense energy emerges from an inner journey, tracing a dance of contrasts and recounting in unison the continuity, the echo of movement in the curve… The balance, achieved in the arc of the spiral, draws in space with freedom of expression the poetry of feeling’.