Battle mon coeur #3

Two soli. Two autobiographies danced in silence. Then the dancers, laid bare in this way, challenge and confront each other with provocation or complicity, before inviting us to join them on the dance floor for a final communion in the form of a ball.

Kaori Ito's aim is to work on the battle as a place where vital energy is transformed and where people mingle, inviting us to let ourselves be invaded by dance, by others, and to exalt together to affirm that we are alive and well!

Dancer and designer for 20 years, Kaori Ito seeks to bring out a vital movement that connects bodies and brings into existence the void, the invisible and the sacred. Born in Japan into a family of artists, she studied classical dance from an early age, followed by modern dance in New York. A performer for over 10 years with major European companies, she felt the need to create her own company in order to develop her artistic approach and choreographic writing. She founded the Himé company in 2015. After an autobiographical trilogy, she returned to her Japanese culture, which inspired her to create, in 2020, the first piece in which she is not on stage. Convinced of the need to make children's voices heard and to give their creativity a place, in 2021 she begins creating with and for young audiences. At the crossroads of cultures and languages, currents, practices and disciplines, Kaori Ito is developing a hybrid artistic vocabulary and a creative approach based on contemporary rituals. Driven by the desire to carry forward a project that dreams the future with young people and gives it substance through art, Kaori Ito is dedicating herself to this wish in 2023 by taking over the direction of the TJP, Centre Dramatique National de Strasbourg. Her aim is to turn it into a transdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational theater that promotes the cross-disciplinary nature of art, the importance of children's questioning and their involvement in the creative process.

Léonore Zurflüh met dance in Israel and began working with the Sharon Fridman company. Moving between Israel, Madrid and Paris, she went on to work as a dancer with several companies: Benjamin Bertrand, David Drouard, Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company Collectif Work, Jeremy Nedd, Jean Guillaume Weiss, Cie Exlex, etc. Passionate about video and image, she works with several directors as an actor and choreographer.

Dancer, choreographer, Louis Gillard studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where he created his first pieces. Sensitive to the idea that all form is a process in mutation, he has developed an instinctive approach to the creative process. Since the creation of DearHe is a performer or choreographic assistant on Kaori Ito's latest shows. From 2023, he is a member of the TJP artists' committee. In 2024, Louis Gillard founded his own company, de(s)clic. Sensitive to the idea that every form is a process in mutation, he develops an instinctive approach to creation. This season, he also presents at the TJP The Hundred Demons Parade and plays in Utopia Utopias.