Joëlle Léandre

French double bass player, improviser and composer, Joëlle Léandre is one of the dominant figures of the new European music. Trained in orchestral as well as contemporary music, she has played with l’Itinéraire, 2e2m and Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble Intercontemporain. Joëlle Léandre has also worked with Merce Cunningham and with John Cage, who has composed especially for her – as have Scelsi, Fénelon, Hersant, Lacy, Campana, Jolas, Clementi and about twenty composers. As well as working in contemporary music, Léandre has played with some of the great names in jazz and improvisation, such as Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Evan Parker, Irene Schweier, Barre Phillips, Steve Lacy, Lauren Newton, Peter Kowald, Urs Leimgruber, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Mark Naussef, Marilyn Crispell, India Cooke and so many else… She has written extensively for dance and theater, and has staged a
number of multidisciplinary performances. She got the DAAD at Berlin, is welcomed as artist resident at Villa Kujiyama (Kyoto). In 2002, 2004 and 2006, she is Visiting Professor at Mills college, Oakland, CA, Chaire Darius Milhaud, for improvisation and composition. Her work as a composer and a performer, both in solo recitals and a part of ensembles, has put her under the lights of the most prestigious stages of Europe, the Americas and Asia. From 1981 to 2008, Joëlle Léandre has 120 recordings to her credit.

Dominique Boivin

He started contemporary dance with Carolyn Carlson and pursued it with Alwin Nikolaïs at the C.N.D.C (National Centre of Contemporary Dance) of Angers. In 1980 he obtained a two year scholarship for a training course in New York, where he followed courses by Merce Cunningham and Douglas Dunn. At the time he alternated between work as a performer in different companies (P.Decouffle, D.Larrieu, Grand Magasin…) and work as a choreographer and director.
His last creations take on very diversified worlds with Aqua ça Rrime ? – a show in a swimming pool; Transports exceptionnels – a duo for a mechanical digger and a dancer; A quoi tu penses ? – a piece choreographed on the monologues of the writer Marie Nimier; and Ni d’Eve, ni d’Adam – a second duo with Pascale Houbin. In 2009 he created the solo Don Quichotte at the National Dance Centre of Pantin, and with the choreographer Dominique Rebaud he revived the Revue Zoopsie Comedi (1986), of which the original costumes by Christian Lacroix are reinterpreted by the designer for this new version. He collaborated with the musician Joëlle Léandre in Oaxaca in homage to John Cage.

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