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Vibrisses is a 1901 association created in 2019 on the initiative of choreographer Joséphine Tilloy. Stéphanie Hurault joined her in 2024 to take charge of administrative and production projects. The aim is to create art and bring it to the public. Around dance, vibrisses brings together several different professions. It is structured by an office, with an artistic team and development support. The company's work revolves around movement research on the borderline between choreographic writing and performance, with authors, researchers and performers from a variety of artistic disciplines and audiences. The link between creation and transmission is fundamental.
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Josephine Tilloy
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Josephine Tilloy comes from 4 generations of artists.
She trained in Brussels at Charleroi Danse's Danse et Pratiques Chorégraphiques program, in partnership with La Cambre, INSAS and ULB. Prior to this, she chose to open up her career by combining theory and practice at the University of Paris-8 in theater and dance, at the Rencontres Internationales de Danse Contemporaine. Alongside her gymnastics studies, she began her dance training with improvisation workshops, before taking part in an arts-plastics option with special timetables at various conservatories, including Evry, Montreuil and A.I.D.
She studied with Christine Gerard, Mark Tompkins, Robyn Orlin, Marina Rocco, Roberto Olivan, Olga de Sotto, Boris Charmatz...
Josephine Tilloy is also a performer, currently appearing in pieces by Bouchra Ouizguen (Corbeaux, Elephant), Claire Gérald (Désir fou, Célébration), she recently improvised in a carte blanche by Marco Berrettini, in a performance by artist Claire Chassot, in a production by Christine Bastin, she works with the Keatbeck company and is a member of the Collectif Impulsion.
She began writing at the crossroads of artistic languages through collaborations with artists, musicians and stage directors in France, Belgium and Tunisia.
To implement her projects, she created the vibrisses structure in 2019. She created a diptych Rosalie, Evila and began her first solo: Léonce. She leads various projects with audiences in connection with her creations and declines her pieces in short, performative, outdoor formats for all ages.
Stéphanie Hurault
Stéphanie Hurault has recently changed careers and is now a production administrator. With a degree in Psychology and a wealth of experience to draw on, she puts her acquired skills to work for the vibrisses company, which she joined in 2024 and has supported since its inception.
Ghislaine Louveau
Ghislaine Louveau, a dancer, enjoys working with choreographic writing. She has danced with Mariam Faquir's Leste company since 2014, and has collaborated with Joséphine Tilloy in Vibrisses since its creation. She has also worked with Raphaël Soleilhavoup, Claire Gérald, Tangible: Sébastien Molliex and Edwine Fournier, Laetitia Doat, Nicolas Maurel. Over the years, she has also developed a taste for improvisation and instant composition, an appetite that has led her to perform with/for visual artists Natalia Jaime-Cortez, Iris Dittler and choreographer Bleuène Madeleine. In parallel with her initial career as a psychomotrician, Ghislaine Louveau took part in research and/or creation workshops with Agnès Dufour, Christine Gérard, Christian Bourigault and Christine Bastin, then trained at the RIDC, where she obtained her DE as a contemporary dance teacher. This dual training led her to particularly appreciate the transmission situations created with companies.
Ghislaine met Joséphine during their training at RIDC. They performed together with Leste and TAM before collaborating with Vibrisses. Ghislaine dances in Rosalie and Evila and participates in transmission projects with the public (Héro.ïne.s Bis and partnership with the Boulogne-Billancourt conservatory).
Léa Mecili
Léa Mécili is a dancer and actress. Daughter of the Algerian political opponent André Ali Mécili, she took an early interest in questions of identity. She studied anthropology at the University of Paris 8 and trained in oriental and traditional North African dance with the Leila Haddad company, performing with them for several years. She later joined the Rencontres Internationales de Danse Contemporaine and the Atelier International de Théâtre Blanche Salant et Paul Weaver. During her training, she took part in the creation of La Compagnie Qui, a collective formed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord with the support of Micheline Rozan and Peter Brook, and collaborated with visual artist Yves Yacoël. Today, she performs for choreographer Claire Gerald and author-director Nebil Daghsen, whose works are created and performed in France, Tunisia and Lebanon. Her meeting with choreographer Joséphine Tilloy in 2012 marked the start of a collaboration that has gone from strength to strength, culminating in the creation of Vibrisses in 2019. She is also a performer in Rosalie and Evila, and takes part in various transmission projects with audiences, in which she is in charge of creating, with the participants, the soundtracks for the performances. To this end, she trained in sound creation at Phonurgia Nova. In collaboration with Joséphine, she is currently writing “La voix de mon père”, a theatrical and choreographic creation exploring an intimate historical heritage.
Hugues L.
Hugues L, sound and multimedia composer, began his career in 1999 by teaming up with Loksman to form the group Psykonote. For several years, the duo played their musical compositions on numerous occasions, released three albums, and participated in the production of vinyl records (ttc family). The duo also devoted themselves to composing more intimate music, and decided to create the Phonoxoïd project. Under this name, they released an album and a vinyl record, and also composed the music for a short film. In 2004, he pursued his musical career as a solo artist, continuing to play concerts, experiment, meet new people and compose, notably on the Hydrophonic records label (Italy), on the Trace compilation, and on the ttc label. Since 2006, he has devoted himself to composing music and creating sound spaces for live performance, collaborating with several renowned contemporary dance companies: Compagnie TAM, Cie Bilbo, Cie Lafeuille d'automne (chicos mambo), Cie FacéCie, Roser Montlló Guberna's Cie Toujours après minuit and Brigitte Seth at the Théâtre de la Ville (Change or die). Following training at Ircam and TNS, he creates interactive installations, often linked to music and image, and presents work based on dance/music interaction with the “Cache-Cache” performance. He also creates interactive videos for various shows.
Cécile Box
Cécile Box graduated in design from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, then from Ensatt (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre), where she followed the “costume design” course. Today, she lives and works between Paris and Marseille. Her work on clothing enables her to put her plastic practice at the service of a specific universe, which constantly varies according to the nature of the project. Each theme is an opportunity to examine certain dress and social codes, to exaggerate, parody, sublimate, rewrite and revisit them. Like a visual score, costume plays a full part in the writing of a character, from the moment it enters the stage. It thus becomes the synthesis of a director's intentions, an actor's feelings and his or her artistic intuition. An integral part of the show's overall aesthetic, the costume is for her the culmination of a dialogue with the various players involved in the project.
Camille Da Silva
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Camille Da Silva is a professional contemporary dancer based in Brussels.
She trained at the Conservatoire de Rennes, Ballets du Nord in Roubaix, Forum Dança in Lisbon and Charleroi-danse in Brussels.
Throughout her career, she has trained with various artists and choreographers, including Carolyn Carlson, Olivier Dubois, Simona Bucci, Marlène Monteiro Freitas, Boris Charmatz, Lia Rodrigues and Robyn Orlyn.
She also holds a Master's degree in Gender and Sexuality and a diploma as a Vinyasa yoga teacher.
Since 2022, she has been training in pole dance and performing in cabaret.
In 2023, Camille performed in the play “Evila” by Joséphine Tilloy/cie Vibrisses, in the creation “Roi Musclée” by Louise Buléon Kayser/collectif La Grosse Plateforme and in the play “Beste Cantate” by Juliette Chevalier/cie La Drache.
Camille met Joséphine Tilloy in 2019, during their training at Charleroi-danse. Her work around rhythm, color, endurance and physicality is of great interest to her. Camille becomes a performer in his piece “Evila”, in which she develops a singular physicality based on a ternary rhythm and circular movements. Their collaboration has led them to work together not only in creation, but also in educational workshops for young audiences.
Félix Bataillou
Félix Bataillou's interest in the world of live performance began when he took amateur theater classes at an early age. After taking a scientific baccalaureate, he enrolled in the BTS Audiovisuel in Toulouse, specializing in the visual arts, to begin his exploration of the frame and the image. He then obtained a degree in Art History with a major in theater studies. With this initial grounding, he joined ENSATT in the lighting design department. During these 3 years of study, he developed his technical skills as well as his artistic eye through various projects. In particular, he worked on the projects Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobie*du et par le Collectif ES, Orgiepar Jean-Philippe Albizzati, Petite sœurpar Béatrice Venet, Marx est mortdu Collectif des Grands Mâtins, Devaste Moipar Johanny Bert, Choisir l'Ecume par Alan Payon, Innocencepar Sarah Calcine; and assisted Floriant LEDUC on the creation of Nouveau Mondemis en scène by Claire Deutch in Geneva. Keeping in mind what he's learned, Félix seeks to enrich his experience and develop his skills.
Lou Sompairac
Lou Sompairac has been a PhD student in the anthropology of olfaction since 2021. Her thesis describes ways of apprehending everyday odors in several cities around the world (Beijing - Bombay - Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo - Nice), revealing both cultural and singular odor practices, and focuses on the processes of smelling in a space, within an interaction and in a relationship to oneself, using micro-phenomenological techniques for verbalizing perception, such as the explicitation interview. Today, Lou Sompairac continues to question the sensory by collaborating with various artistic creation companies (dance - art - music).
Nicolas Guyard
Nicolas Guyard is a lecturer in modern history at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, and a member of the CRISES laboratory. A specialist in Catholicism in the 17th and 18th centuries, he is the author of several reference books and articles on questions of the sacred and sanctity. He is also a founding member of the Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur les Archives Familiales (GIRAF), whose aim is to support social science researchers working on their own family archives, particularly around the question of emotions and writing.