REFACE is a physical and musical research around the idea of ​​transformation, deformation and alteration of materials. Everything is just transition: our body, memory, the social environment, flora, romantic relationships, political powers... Movement infiltrates everything and prevents the creation of definitive and frank forms. We work on this instability on an intimate scale because faces and emotions are cloudy and plural. REFACE wants to make visible this state of transition, these imperceptible and incessant metamorphoses which make manifest the complexity of what we are. REFACE expresses this: the impossible discernment of oneself and the other. Far from being a failure, it is a mystery, a stimulating uncertainty which becomes an inexhaustible source of inspiration for our bodies and our imaginations. We want REFACE to be a place where we can play, contradict ourselves, disturb ourselves, where we can emancipate ourselves from a fixed identity and the oppressive labels we impose on ourselves. We take ourselves for one or another, we replay postures, simulate the looks and expressions of our idols and our ghosts. We go from animal to color, from bourgeoisie to revolution, from obsolete to contemporary, from star to banal. We are one! Who is it ? What is this? A ghost or a vampire? A child or old people? Laughter or terror? Impossible to answer. Nothing is fixed or named. Everything is confusion and illusion. Games and tricks. Cinema and lies.

Source: Maison de la danse

Born in 1994, Chandra is a choreographic artist of French-Venezuelan origin. She trained at the CRR in Paris then at the CNSMD in Lyon in contemporary dance. After obtaining her diploma, she collaborated as a performer with various choreographers, including Ambra Senatore, La Fabrique Fastidieuse, Ali Moini, Le Pole, Maud le Pladec and Maguy Marin. At the same time, Chandra is developing her own research work in collaboration with Tom Grand Mourcel, Martin Malatray-Ravit and Lise Messina. In 2022 they created together La Feat, an artistic platform which brings together three projects: Dikie Istorii company, Hoods Flakes (artistic hold-up) and the collective Les Idoles.

Source: Maison de la danse

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr

Our working approach: searching, searching, stealing references, slipping into the skin of another, reincarnating, (de)mystifying,... We are a tribute collective, crossed by a thousand references, cinematographic, photographic and musical. Thank you grandma Gisou for her topless shot on the beach in Saint-Tropez, thank you Beyoncé for her widely plagiarized Countdown clip from Rosas danst Rosas by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and thank you Buster Keaton for your hip swing in The play house. This work space that we want to be unique and offbeat allows us to question the images that surround us from the most popular to the most elitist, from the most iconic to the most trivial. Who are the figures that we adore? Which ones do we forget or which persist over time? From bodily and musical research we create projects, hybrid performances that are often offbeat and/or anachronistic. We like to play with codes, change viewing angles and divert images that are too static. Thus the question of the gaze and the relationship with the public runs through our work and forces us to reinvent ourselves: ourselves and our relationship to space. The Les Idoles collective is part of the LA FEAT platform.

Source : Maison de la danse