Sidonie FOSSÉ: SO’FAR

choreographer: Sidonie FOSSÉ (FR)

performer: Larissa DORELLA (BR), Johann CLAPSON (FR)

Sidonie FOSSÉ (1986, FR) Her passion for dance revealed very quickly and at the age of nine she decided to make it her profession. It was during her training in classical and contemporary dance at the CNR of Rouen and the CNSM of Paris that her taste for the choreographic practice awaked. Following her desires to deepen her classical technique, she entered the Atelier Ecole Rudra-Béjart. After only one year of training, Maurice Béjart asked her to join his company. She then traveled all around the world with the Ballet Béjart Lausanne. Enriched with experience thanks to all those years in the company, Sidonie Fossé went on to discover other dance styles that led her to co-found the company Opinion Public in Brussels in 2010. The collective created a dozen of dance pieces and in 2020 she choreographed “SO’FAR” which was selected for the Concours International pour chorégraphes de Hanovre and for De Grote Belgische Dansvitrine in 2021. “Maniac” (one of Opinion Public’s dance pieces) won the final of the MarteLive Europe competition in November 2022. Her gesture and choreographic universe are nourished by floorwork, acrobatics and duet work, all of which are based on a deep contemporary and classical background. Her approach is multidisciplinary and seeks to link classical and contemporary techniques in an innovative way, developing a dance that both is aerial and grounded. Throughout her career, Sidonie Fossé has taken part in several choreographic projects, notably with Joost Vrouenraets (Gotra Ballet), Benjamin Millepied (L.A. Dance Project), Simon Leborgne (Opéra de Paris) and the Opéra du Rhin. She also assists the choreographer Etienne Béchard in his creations for the Konzert Theater Bern, the Opéra du Ballet du Rhin and the Grands Ballets Canadiens. She recently took over the artistic direction of the company Opinion Public, which she hopes to develop in its artistic approach.

Larissa DORELLA (1997, BR) She started her dance studies at the age of six, in Brazil. In 2003 she moved to Israel and continued her studies at the “Ironi Alef School of Art of Tel-Aviv” where she graduated in 2015. During her studies she had the chance to work and dance choreographies by Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Idan Sharabi. At the age of 18 she attended the “Dance Workshop Ga’aton”. After one year of specialization training, in 2016, she joined the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, directed by Rami Be’er. During her 3 years at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company she danced Rami’s choreographies such as “Horses in the Sky”, “Mother’s Milk”, “Asylum”, “A Good Citizen”, touring around Israel and abroad including the USA and Europe. In 2019 she moved to South Korea as a freelancer, creating and dancing “Bolero” in collaboration with the Daegu traditional orchestra. In 2021 she becomes a member of the Daegu City Dance Company directed by Kim Sung Yong. She is co-founder of “Square House Creations” creating works such as “Autopsia”, “In it” and “My vimana, Godspeed!”. In 2023 she joined the Opinion Public Dance Company as a guest dancer for the piece “Empty room” and for the piece of the repertory.

Johann CLAPSON (1983, FR) He began his pre-professional training at Académie Princesse Grace in Monaco and he continued to the Ecole Nationale de danse in Marseilles. Next, he enrolled into Ecole-Atelier Rudra Béjart in 2004. In 2006, he joined Béjart Ballet Lausanne and he decided in 2010 to founded the company Opinion Public. He created, together with Etienne Béchard “Post Anima” at the Konzert Theater in Bern and actively participated in the creation and performance of “Cupidon s’en fout…” for Opéra National du Ballet in Rhin as an assistant choreographer and dancer, in 2016. In addition to having created a dozen pieces with her collective Opinion Public, he created the piece « SO’FAR » with Sidonie Fossé, a piece that was selected for the international choreography competition in Hannover in 2021.