MA, Individualized studies programme (INDI)

Eve is a contemporary dance artist and teacher who has distinguished herself by an atypical career path formed mainly by successive integration and uprooting. Two key themes run throughout her artistic approach: circular movement and body/space relationship.Space is happening and we are part of the event.

Born and trained in France, it was in Scandinavia however that she pursued a career as a performercollaborating with institutions such as the Royal Danish Opera as well as with independent leading contemporary choreographers. Based in Montreal since 2010, she is active in the dance community as a performer, a rehearsal director and project developer working closely with Marie Chouinard, Martin Bélanger, Dominique Porte among others.

Eve is a part-time professor at UQAM, where she teaches contemporary technique and interpretation. She is particularly involved in the dance department’s reflections on ways of promoting inclusive learning.

Her research-creation, The Flesh of the Brain: Autobiographical Pact in Performative Dance, is a multi-layered approach to memory and identity. This multi-disciplinary project examines the emerging phenomenon of autobiographical artistic works using movement practices as a primary form of expression. It aims to explore what is unique and impactful about deploying dance practices to narrate one’s life experiences. In some contemporary dance process, movement is envisioned as the enactment of a form of whole-body intelligence. With this research, Eve seeks to foster a space where choreographic creative techniques meet a social orientation towards body movement as a dynamically embodied meaningful action that is culturally and historically situated. “… a space  that requires a different kind of writing, and in turn a different kind of reading”(Andrew Beatty, Emotional Worlds: beyond an anthropology of emotions, 2019).

To explore the possibilities of a sensorial narrative landscape that celebrates unique perspectives and human experience, the research covers the fields of Performative Dance under the supervision of Dr Jens Giersdorf, Oral History under the supervision of Dr Barbara Lorenzkowski and Theatre under the supervision of Dr Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro.