Loïc Touzé

Loïc Touzé is a dancer, choreographer and teacher.
He has been creating works since the mid-90s, including Morceau, Love, La Chance, Fanfare and Forme Simple, but his creations can take on many different forms. The project Autour de la table, co-written with Anne Kerzerho, and the film Dedans ce monde are all ways of showing dance outside its spectacular perimeter, outside its field or on the edge of the choreographic field.
Most of the performers who share his work are themselves authors, and their talent and commitment have made a major contribution to the production of choreographic works over the last twenty years.

For several years he has been working with researcher and artist Mathieu Bouvier to investigate the notion of the figure, leading to a series of professional workshops and the creation of the pourunatlasdesfigures.net website. He is also regularly invited to take part in research activities at the Manufacture in Lausanne.

Loïc Touzé has developed an extensive teaching practice and gives numerous courses for professionals and amateurs in France and around the world. He is a regular contributor to professional dance and theatre training courses (Master Exerce, the Théâtre National de Strasbourg and La Manufacture schools in Lausanne). Between 2004 and 2007 he was a founding member of the pedagogical college of the CNDC in Angers, and between 2016 and 2019 he was an associate lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Nantes.

Loïc Touzé is also involved in other artists’ projects, on the one hand by offering choreographic and dramaturgical support (for circus, theatre, dance and music), and on the other by developing contexts conducive to the emergence of work other than his own. He was an active member of the Signataires du 20 août group between 1997 and 2001. He co-directed the Aubervilliers laboratories from 2001 to 2006 with Yvane Chapuis and François Piron, and since 2011 has directed Honolulu, a space for contemporary creation dedicated to dance and performance in Nantes.

All these forms of action – creation, research, teaching and collaboration – are linked together without any hierarchy. The guiding principle of our work is the conviction that dance is an adventure, a promise of transformation and emancipation.

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