ALMAVENUS
The company AlmaVenus was created in 2018 by Nina Negri, director and choreographer.
By challenging cinematographic montage-thinking on stage, AlmaVenus composes objects crossed by a multiplicity of voices, subverting the point of view of the materials from which they draw inspiration. In this way, the company imagines evolving dispositifs that approach the relationship with spectators in a sensory and musical mode, and question the way in which dominant imaginaries impact minoritized bodies.
In collaboration with the other artists in the company, she has developed a specific methodology - the montage of Images-Plateaux (stage-images) - for horizontally combining different media and scenic languages within the creative process. While having the same valence, the Images-Plateaux are both a physical thing and a sensitive phenomenon, and are as much about form and force, plan and trace, as about the experience of the gaze and dialectical thought. The dramaturgy follows procedures derived from cinematic grammar - such as jump-cut, found footage, echo editing, de-synchronization between field and off-field - orchestrated by notions of rhythm, address, plasticity and meaning.
AlmaVenus has collaborated, among others, with Bilal Abdallah, Anna-Marija Adomaityte, Francine Acolas, Elise Amal, Mat Avogadro, Rébecca Balestra, Coline Bardin, Piera Bellato, Prune Beuchat, Boris Boublil, Justine Bouillet, Julien Bosse, Rose Bruneau, Martin Burger, Sarah Calcine, Arianna Camilli, Chiara Capitani, Marion Chabloz, Ruth Childs, Clémentine Colpin, Cyprien Colombo, Klaire-Alice Crettol, Karine Dahouindji, Clara Delorme, Laura Den Hondt, Xavier De Marcellis, Davide De Vita, Susanna Dimitri, Hector Fassa, Francesco Fioretto, Amaranta Fontcuberta, Christopher Gallo, Etienne Gaches, Laura Gaillard, Natasza Gerlach, Franky Gogo, Patrick Gross, Ludovic Guglielmazzi, Melissa Guex, Maxime Gorbatchevsky, Cécile Goussard, Camille Hakim Hashemi, Nidea Henriquez, Arnaud Huguenin, Marco Ievoli, Eva Jospin, Elisabeth Le Coënt, Loïc Le Manac’h, Lula, Zuzana Kakalikova, Sylvie Kleiber, Manon Krüttli, Andrea Lanciotti, Alex Landa Aguirreche, Fares Landoulsi, Audrey Liebot, Cédric Leproust, Neda Loncarevic, Mélina Martin, Camille Masserey, Léa Katharina Meier, Lucie Meyer, Guillaume Miramond, Manon Monnier, Sante Moonie, Adrien Moretti, Delphine Mouly, Mozarf, Wolfgang Natlacen, Mariana Nunes, Flavia Papadaniel, Olivia Pedroli, Isadora Pei, Romane Peytavin, Lorraine Perriard, Mimmo Pisino, Emanuele Policante, Agathe Hazard Raboud, Philippe Rekacewicz, Céline Ribeiro, François Renou, Jeanne S. Rück, Leon David Salazar, Kahena Sanaa, Davide-Christelle Sanvee, Vincent Scalbert, Dakota Simao, Margot Sparkes, Marion Stoufflet, Carlos Tago, Gautier Teuscher, Toni Teixeira, Mamu Tshi, Gwenaëlle Vaudin, Jérôme Vernez, Lisa Veyrier, Solie Warren, Timothée Zurbuchen.
AlmaVenus has presented its creations at the following venues: Comédie de Genève (Geneva - CH), Galerie d'art Rivellino (Locarno - CH), Villa Mais d'Ici (Aubervilliers - FR), La Manufacture (Lausanne - CH), Centre National de Danse (Pantin - FR), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris - FR), Sale Docks (Venice - IT), Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris - FR), Festival Assemblaggi Provvisori (Lucca - IT), Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne - CH), Arsenic (Lausanne - CH), Théâtre Populaire Romand (La Chaux-de-Fonds - CH), Théâtre Les Halles (Sierre - CH), Théâtre de la cité internationale, Festival Transforme (Paris - FR), Festival Les Créatives (Geneva - CH).
By challenging cinematographic montage-thinking on stage, AlmaVenus composes objects crossed by a multiplicity of voices, subverting the point of view of the materials from which they draw inspiration. In this way, the company imagines evolving dispositifs that approach the relationship with spectators in a sensory and musical mode, and question the way in which dominant imaginaries impact minoritized bodies.
In collaboration with the other artists in the company, she has developed a specific methodology - the montage of Images-Plateaux (stage-images) - for horizontally combining different media and scenic languages within the creative process. While having the same valence, the Images-Plateaux are both a physical thing and a sensitive phenomenon, and are as much about form and force, plan and trace, as about the experience of the gaze and dialectical thought. The dramaturgy follows procedures derived from cinematic grammar - such as jump-cut, found footage, echo editing, de-synchronization between field and off-field - orchestrated by notions of rhythm, address, plasticity and meaning.
AlmaVenus has collaborated, among others, with Bilal Abdallah, Anna-Marija Adomaityte, Francine Acolas, Elise Amal, Mat Avogadro, Rébecca Balestra, Coline Bardin, Piera Bellato, Prune Beuchat, Boris Boublil, Justine Bouillet, Julien Bosse, Rose Bruneau, Martin Burger, Sarah Calcine, Arianna Camilli, Chiara Capitani, Marion Chabloz, Ruth Childs, Clémentine Colpin, Cyprien Colombo, Klaire-Alice Crettol, Karine Dahouindji, Clara Delorme, Laura Den Hondt, Xavier De Marcellis, Davide De Vita, Susanna Dimitri, Hector Fassa, Francesco Fioretto, Amaranta Fontcuberta, Christopher Gallo, Etienne Gaches, Laura Gaillard, Natasza Gerlach, Franky Gogo, Patrick Gross, Ludovic Guglielmazzi, Melissa Guex, Maxime Gorbatchevsky, Cécile Goussard, Camille Hakim Hashemi, Nidea Henriquez, Arnaud Huguenin, Marco Ievoli, Eva Jospin, Elisabeth Le Coënt, Loïc Le Manac’h, Lula, Zuzana Kakalikova, Sylvie Kleiber, Manon Krüttli, Andrea Lanciotti, Alex Landa Aguirreche, Fares Landoulsi, Audrey Liebot, Cédric Leproust, Neda Loncarevic, Mélina Martin, Camille Masserey, Léa Katharina Meier, Lucie Meyer, Guillaume Miramond, Manon Monnier, Sante Moonie, Adrien Moretti, Delphine Mouly, Mozarf, Wolfgang Natlacen, Mariana Nunes, Flavia Papadaniel, Olivia Pedroli, Isadora Pei, Romane Peytavin, Lorraine Perriard, Mimmo Pisino, Emanuele Policante, Agathe Hazard Raboud, Philippe Rekacewicz, Céline Ribeiro, François Renou, Jeanne S. Rück, Leon David Salazar, Kahena Sanaa, Davide-Christelle Sanvee, Vincent Scalbert, Dakota Simao, Margot Sparkes, Marion Stoufflet, Carlos Tago, Gautier Teuscher, Toni Teixeira, Mamu Tshi, Gwenaëlle Vaudin, Jérôme Vernez, Lisa Veyrier, Solie Warren, Timothée Zurbuchen.
AlmaVenus has presented its creations at the following venues: Comédie de Genève (Geneva - CH), Galerie d'art Rivellino (Locarno - CH), Villa Mais d'Ici (Aubervilliers - FR), La Manufacture (Lausanne - CH), Centre National de Danse (Pantin - FR), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris - FR), Sale Docks (Venice - IT), Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris - FR), Festival Assemblaggi Provvisori (Lucca - IT), Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne - CH), Arsenic (Lausanne - CH), Théâtre Populaire Romand (La Chaux-de-Fonds - CH), Théâtre Les Halles (Sierre - CH), Théâtre de la cité internationale, Festival Transforme (Paris - FR), Festival Les Créatives (Geneva - CH).