Nadia Vadori-Gauthier

Trained in dance, theater, and visual art, specialist in movement  practices (dance, instant composition, authentic movement, Body-Mind  Centering, yoga), Nadia Vadori-Gauthier bases her artistic and  theoretical research upon her somatic experience. After seven years as a  choreographer (creating seven pieces), today she pursues the research  work of Le Corps collectif, an artistic laboratory and performance group, interrogating the borders between art and life, visible and invisible, movement and form.

Her current research subjects, based on the implementation of a  theoretical-practical continuum, concern different thresholds of  perception and representation in the creative process, with the goal of  producing an art that maintains its connection with life and establishes  new collective arrangements between artists, spectators, and  environments. This process must involve, first of all, a renewal of  scenographic practices and writing, drawing from fluid, open  commonalities.

Committed to implementing an active and living poetry, she develops  transversal and interdisciplinary hypotheses for research (visual and  plastic arts/video/sonic poetry/dance/site-based performance/philosophy/poiesis/cognitive  sciences) in order to propose alternatives to representation,  attempting to contribute to renewing the dominant modes of visibility  and corporeality and to conceive of new modalities of images in the  performance fields, envisaging her artistic propositions not as artistic  destinations but as esthetic/political/somatic vectors for connection  to living.

In an essentially image-based world, she proposes to inhabit a body that has no image a priori; this liberty seems to her one of the keystones of profound esthetic mutations.