“I'm not interested in purely aesthetic production," says Swiss artist Lucie Eidenbenz. Created in 2019 as part of the "Comment habiter le monde" (“How to inhabit this world”) triptych, which also includes a podcast and a film, her "performance-cabin" is first and foremost a creative workshop and an experience in environmental co-reflection, in which spectators are stakeholders. Although its title evokes Nijinksi's Faun, it is not limited to a danced evocation of this cult piece, but proposes an interweaving of narratives and actions suggesting other poetic and interactive ways of "co-inhabiting the world". Accompanied by three performers acting as game leaders, the audience is invited to interact by reconnecting with the playful spirit of childhood. Whether modeling clay, creating a chalk drawing, learning the language of blackbirds, or practicing thumb-breathing like the famous Ballets Russes dancer, the essential thing is to "harvest possibilities". Then they’re off to a "thinking hut", the fragile shelter of a new human community.

Source: programme of CND

After a Bachelor in Arts, Lucie Eidenbenz joins the cursus Exerce, a choreographic course directed by Mathilde Monnier in CCN Montpellier. Since then she has been working with diferent artists such as Marco Berrettini, Laura Kalauz, Mathilde Monnier, Diana Rojas, Maya Boesch, Luna Paese, Superamas, Yan Duyvendak and Olivier Dubois. In 2009 she takes part in the seminar Transforme directed by Myriam Gourink (FR). Lucie's works Traum Project (2010), Animals are like water in water (2011) ,Te Boiling Point (2011), Last Plays (2014)tour in Switzerland and in Europe in diferent contexts, such as Téâtre de l’Usine, Festival Archipel (CH), Xplore Dance Festival Bucharest, Festival Il faut brûler pour briller (FR), Festival Insoliti (IT), Festival la Becquée (FR), Festival, Amplitudes (CH), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), Tanzhaus Zu rich, Tanzfaktor Interregio (CH), Festival de la Cité (CH), Dock11 Berlin (DE), etc. She's part of the artist network Sweet&Tender Collaborations, for which she curates the 2012 creation and exchange platform in Dampfzentrale à Berne. In 2015 she joins the programm of Experimentation in Arts and Politics (SPEAP) at Sciences Po Paris, directed by Bruno Latour and created "Hospitalités". In 2016 she participated in the "Art & Dissent, Negociating Space" seminar at the ZHDK, Zürich.

Source: Lucie Eidenbenz 's website

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Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).