Choreographer, dancer and performer, Aina Alegre embraces choreographic creation as a means of opening up imaginary worlds around the body.
Influenced by fiction as both genre and practice, her work explores the body in plastic environments, and her choreographic writing is closely linked to rhythm and music. Her work also focuses on notions of memory and the anthropology of gesture.
After a multidisciplinary training in dance, theater and music in Barcelona, Aina Alegre joined the CNDC in Angers in 2007 where she developped choreographic objects constructed from different media: pieces for the stage and performances in hybrid spaces.
In 2014, she founded the STUDIO FICTIF company in Paris in order to support her projects and creations. Since then, her work has beeń presented in various countries including Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Peru or Romania.
In 2011, she created the performance LA MAJA DESNUDA DICE, a proposal that led to the creation of the piece NO SE TRATA DE UN DESNUDO MITOLÓGICO (2012). She subsequently created DÉLICES (2015), LE JOUR DE LA BÊTE (2017) and LA NUIT NOS AUTRES (2019). In 2020, she creates CONCRERTO in collaboration with David Wampach and the solo R-A-U-X-A. In 2021, she creates ÉTUDE 4, FANDANGO ET AUTRES CADENCES, at the Avignon Festival as part of the "Vive le sujet!" program co-produced with the SACD. In 2022, she creates her first major group piece THIS IS NOT (AN ACT OF LOVE & RESISTANCE). In June 2023, she opens the Marseille Festival with PARADES & DÉSOBÉISSANCES, a piece for 100 amateurs, and also creates SWING-MOTOR for the Jeune Ballet du CNSMD in Lyon in November of the same year.
Alongside her stage projects, since 2018 she has been setting up the research and performance project ÉTUDES, with which she encounters people and territories and collects stories around practices and dances linked to the gestures of hammering and striking. She works on the theme of memory and archiving, using the spoken word as a choreographic driving force.
AWARDS
In 2019, she wins the Jury Prize at the Podium competition with the piece DELICES.
In 2023, she receives the Serra d'Or critics' prize for best dance production for the piece R-A-U-X-A.
Yannick Hugron is a dancer-performer, teacher, assistant choreographer and costume designer. He sees his artistic career as a constantly evolving process of questioning, enriched by the diverse experiences and thoughts he encounters. His preoccupation with the performer's craft and its fragile longevity leads him to re-question the tools available to him, as well as his place in today's choreographic milieu.
After training at the Centre Chorégraphique National in Montpellier and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse in Lyon, Yannick Hugron joined the Centre Chorégraphique National in Grenoble alongside Jean Claude Gallotta, with whom he worked for more than ten years, before subsequently touring his repertoire in France and abroad.
As a performer, he went on to work with Alban Richard, Fabrice Lambert, Joanne Leighton, Mithkal Alzghair, Mélanie Perrier and Aina Alegre, among others.
His experience soon became multi-faceted. He has been involved in a number of teaching programs, co-founded a Franco-Japanese creation platform in Japan to promote the emergence of artists, assisted in numerous choreographic projects, and produced the staging and set design (in collaboration with designer Stephanie Langard) for baritone Marc Mauillon's recital.
His artistic collaborations have also led him to research and development around instantaneous composition with Katell Hartereau and Leonard Rainis, as well as a shift towards somatic practices.
His recent encounter with Alexandra Bertaut led him to design and produce the set and costume design for Marion Carriau and Magda Kachouche's project Chêne centenaire.
Since January 1, 2023, Yannick Hugron has been co-director of the Centre chorégraphique national in Grenoble, alongside choreographer Aina Alegre.