Showroomdummies #3, inspired by La vénus à la fourrure by Leopold von Sacher Masoch (1870) is a bewildering performance mixing dance, theater and visual art.
Severin, main character, is a man  who falls in love with a statue of Venus. He met Wanda troubling  personification of this venus that will allow him to fulfill his  fantasies. Wanda, his goddess, and Severin which will soon voluntarily  become its slave.
In a combination of austerity and  sensuality the work progresses through a slow and mechanical  choreography supported by the electronic music of the Austrian composer  Peter Rehberg.

Gisèle  Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer, and theatre and film  director. From an early age, she was trained in visual arts by Dorothéa  Vienne-Pollak, and later studied dance, music, philosophy, and  puppeteering.

Over the past twenty years, her work has toured in Europe, Asia, and America, among others the productions Showroomdummies #1, #2, #3, #4 (2001 – 2020), I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle, Crowd (2017), L’Étang (2021), and EXTRA LIFE (2023).  In 2021, she directed the film Jerk.

Vienne has frequently exhibited her photographs and installations in museums, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art in  New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Nacional de Bellas  Artes in Buenos Aires, the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva and Musée  d’Art Moderne de Paris. In 2024/2025 she presents two new exhibitions  for the Contemporary Art Center Haus am Waldsee and the Georg Kolbe  Museum inaugurated as part of Berlin Art Week 2024. 

She published her photography in the books JERK/Through Their Tears with Jonathan Capdevielle, Dennis Cooper,and Peter Rehberg (Paris: Dis Voir, 2011) and 40 PORTRAITS (2003–2008), in collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Pierre Dourthe (Paris: Éditions P.O.L., 2012). A  new book of photographs, designed in collaboration with Estelle Hanania  and Elsa Dorlin, is published by Spector Books in November 24. Her work has led to various publications and the original music of her shows to several albums.  

Source and more information: https://www.g-v.fr/en/gisele-vienne/

From live stage images to life in images, the  director and video artist Karim Zeriahen seems to have found the  shortest way. Since the beginning of the 90s, when he worked in close  relationship with choreographer Philippe Decouflé, he learned how to put  the art of stage in motion, contemporary dance most of the time. Karim  Zeriahen then starts a fruitful collaboration with Montpellier based  choreographer Mathilde Monnier. Stop, Videlilah, day of night, short  films adapted from her stage creations. Each time, Karim Zeriahen's   camera takes over the place with movement, the body language is not  frozen but magnified. Choreographer Herman Diephuis also joins this  gallery of dancing portraits. Documentaries on figures such like Albert  Maysles or Hubert de Givenchy and from Joe Dalessandro to Paul  Morrissey, he sets a signature, a camera always in action with  confidence.

Today the director goes further with a new  project and tracks the subtle movements of the body language beyond the  physical appearance. A collection of living portraits as unique pièces  reminding us of the master portraitists of renaissance. These living  natures consists in filming the subject in a certain amount of time,  almost still, with signs of respiration, eye blinks, as if it were  posing for a painting. They are then displayed on a flat screen with a  memory card. With this collection starting, Karim Zeriahen, with his  documentary and artist vision, interrogates himself about the virtual  world filled with images. By taking a pause, and his models with him, he  questions the way we look at things, the way we look at life.

Source: Philippe Noisette 

En savoir plus: www.karimzeriahen.com

Since acquiring the CCN title in 1999, the Centre Chorégraphique National - Ballet de Lorraine has dedicated itself to supporting contemporary choreographic creation. As of July 2011 the organization is under the general and artistic direction of Petter Jacobsson.
The CCN – Ballet de Lorraine and its company of 26 dancers is one of the most important companies working in Europe, performing contemporary creations while retaining and programming a rich and extensive repertory, spanning our modern history, made up of works by some of our generations most highly regarded choreographers.
The CCN functions as an art center and venue for multiple possibilities in the fields of research, experimentation and artistic creation. It is a platform open to many different disciplines, a space where the many visions of dance of today may meet. 

More information : http://ballet-de-lorraine.eu