Jérémy Tran
His artistic and professional career was built through hybrid and multidisciplinary projects and collaborations, at the confluence of dance, performance, photography and video. Through creation, Jérémy Tran attempts to capture, amplify and transform the energy and presence of the body – based on choreographic and cinematographic research – in order to reveal its essences and instincts.
After starting classical dance at the age of 8, Jérémy Tran, student at the Conservatoire Régional de Lille, decided in 2009 to move towards contemporary dance. It is strong these years and the rewards obtained – triple gold medalist at the French National Confederation of Dance – he joined in 2010 the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon. In 2014, he obtained the National Superior Professional Dancer Diploma, the ADAMI scholarship and the Talent prodij trophy from the city of Lyon. He directed many short films, including Artificial Landscapes, gathering 140 people, which he presented in September 2014 at the International Lyon Dance Biennale, and Dissection of the 60secondsdance Denmark international festival.
In 2015 he was selected to participate as a videographer and performer at the Watermill Center Summer Program in New York and work under the direction of director Robert Wilson. He also choreographed the performance Lagune for 6 dancers and a marionnetist, in collaboration with the visual artist Denis Savary on the occasion of the centenary of the DADA.
In 2016, he obtained the Master 2 Development of International Artistic and Cultural Projects (with highest honors) from the Université Lumière Lyon 2, in which he wrote a dissertation on The participations of amateur artists in the creations of the world of dance: the impacts and issues related to these interpreters. After having worked as a project monitoring officer at the Center National de Lyon, he continued his training by integrating the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in Project Management in Information Architecture and at the same time held the position of Project Manager / Administration in an art production office in Lyon.
In 2018, he became artistic director as well as an independent author, specializing in dance and video production. He is also admitted for the orals of the selection competition for residents of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, which take place at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Since 2020, Jérémy Tran has participated as a teacher, choreographer-director, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon, the CinéFabrique – École Nationale Supérieure de Cinéma and the Centre National de la Danse, to deal with the articulation between choreographic and cinematographic languages. He notably directed and choreographed the piece What is left for us initially scheduled at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in June 2020, but canceled following COVID-19. He is also a contributor to the digital platform dedicated to video-dance Numeridanse, carried by the Maison de la Danse de Lyon and supported by the French Ministry of Culture.
In 2022, he choreographed the dance-theatre piece Rouge dents written by Pauline Peyrade and directed by Pierre Cuq; choreographed the plays Scaphandre — commissioned by Liza Blanchard directed by Julie Guichard — as well as Entre ses mains directed by Julie Guichard. He worked as a director on the creation of the piece Umvandlung choreographed and interpreted by Anne Martin, accompanied by Gilles Nicolas visual artist. He is also a member of the jury for the Micro-Métrages competition, an initiative led by the Micro-Folie network, chaired by LA HORDE and organized by La Villette as part of Cinéma en Plein Air 2022.
