Sandra Valentini

After classical dance training (the conservatory in Toulouse, Centre International Rosella Hightower), she turned to contemporary dance, joining the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers. She would then perform successively for Philippe Découflé, Odile Duboc, Yvann Alexandre, the Cie Linga in Lausanne, Yann Lheureux, Christine Van Maerrem and Flavio Tortoli, Christophe Haleb. She founded the group “Les Filles”, based on electronic music-dance research. “Les Filles” would later work with, among others, Laurent Garnier, Jeff Mills, and Aphex Twin.    

She also created video-dance projects, “Elle s’Habille Comme une Fleur” would receive an award at the festival “Dance on Screen ” in London and “Dance on Camera” in New York. “Zyeux”, presented during La Nuit Blanche Paris, would be backed by the CCN in Créteil and the Ballets de Marseille. She graduated with a degree in teaching dance and teaches at the dance workshops at the TGP in Saint Denis. She also develops projects between the CND and the Ecole Joséphine Baker, regularly gave warm-up lessons in companies, and has also choreographed for the Biennal parade in Lyon. Today, Sandra Valentini is a choreographer and founder of the company “Les Filles en Aiguilles”, whose objective is to create artistic bridges between contemporary dance and advertisers, she is also a photo model for François Rousseau, and is choreographer for “Slow Moscow”, a transmedia project supported and broadcast by France 4.

Source : Jeune Ballet d’Aquitaine ‘s website (France)