A choreographer and dancer, Aina Alegre has been creating shows and performances in a wide variety of formats since 2010.
She sees choreographic creation as a way of opening up imaginary worlds around the body. Through dance she explores different relationships to the collective body, and her choreographic work is conceived as an ‘orchestration’ of movement, sound, light and space. Her writing is as much choreographic as it is musical: for several years now, Aina Alegre has had a musical signature, choreographing music and imagining music for the eyes. Through her creations, she also conducts research into the notions of memory and archive that run through all her work.
After multidisciplinary training in dance, theater and music in Barcelona, Aina Alegre joined the CNDC in Angers in 2007. She articulates 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 to accompany her projects and creations. Since then, her work has been presented in countries including Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Peru and Romania.
In 2011, she created the performance LA MAJA DESNUDA DICE, which led to the creation of the piece NO SE TRATA DE UN DESNUDO MITOLÓGICO (2012). She subsequently created DELICES (2015), LE JOUR DE LA BÊTE (2017) and LA NUIT NOS AUTRES (2019). In 2020, she will create 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 SACD. In 2022, she creates her first major group piece THIS IS NOT (AN ACT OF LOVE & RESISTANCE). In 2023, she creates SWING-MOTOR for the Jeune Ballet du CNSMD de Lyon. The same year, she opened the Marseille Festival with PARADES & DÉSOBÉISSANCES, a piece for over 100 amateurs, which was revived in 2024 at the Palais des Sports in Grenoble. FUGACES, her next group piece conceived for eight performers, will premiere on March 11 and 12, 2025 at the MC2: Grenoble.
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 and dances around practices and dances linked to the gestural of hammering and striking. She works with memory and archives, and uses the spoken word as a choreographic driving force. In autumn 2024, she will present RÉVERBÉRATIONS -ÉTUDE 8 at the Festival Les Inaccoutumées de la Ménagerie de Verre - Paris.
AWARDS
In 2019, she won the Jury Prize at the Podium competition with her piece DELICES.
In 2023, she received the Serra d'Or critics' prize for best dance performance 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 lead him to re-question the tools available to him, as well as his place today in the choreographic milieu.
After training at the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier and a course at the Conservatoire national supérieur de danse de Lyon, Yannick Hugron joined the Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble under Jean Claude Gallotta, with whom he worked for over ten years before subsequently transmitting his repertoire in France and abroad.
As a performer, he went on to collaborate with Alban Richard, Fabrice Lambert, Joanne Leighton, Mithkal Alzghair, Mélanie Perrier, Marion Carriau 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 a number of 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 develop instantaneous composition with Katell Hartereau and Leonard Rainis, as well as a shift towards somatic practices.
His encounter with Alexandra Bertaut led to the design and production of set and costume design for Marion Carriau and Magda Kachouche's project Chêne centenaire.
As a performer, he takes part in Marion Carriau's next creations, L'Amiral Sénès (2024), and Aina Alegre's FUGACES (2025).
Since 2023, Yannick Hugron has been co-director of the Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble in tandem with choreographer Aina Alegre.