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• Gaëtan Brun-Picard

  As a choreographic artist, Gaëtan Brun-Picard explores the relationship between bodies, space and the idea of group through various media. In 2014, he co-founded the Collectif w.o.r.k.? with whom he experiments with the concept of contemporary community. He comes to movement self-taught and works with Emanuel Gat, the Das Plateau collective, Pau Simon or Milla Koistinen (DE/FI) among others… He has been collaborating with Eric Minh Cuong Castaing / Shōnen for over 10 years on creations such as Waka Theater, Sous Influence or _parc_, performed for its premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. At the same time, he is developing in-situ creative work with groups of people living specific realities. His project (57) mnémosyne, Communauté.s du futur was supported by the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis festival, and won the SNCF Foundation’s “Faire ensemble avec nos différences” prize. He is co-directing a long-term project based on movement and the idea of hospitality, in collaboration with visual artist Javiera Hiault-Echeverria, at the Centre de Soins de la Courneuve. Finally, he is currently working with choreographer Fernando Cabral to create a performance project, supported by the Carreau du Temple, with young teenagers from the Pitié-Salpêtrière child and adolescent psychiatry ward. Since 2018, he has been artist-in-residence at 6b Saint Denis.