Claire Dessimoz
claire@dessimoz.org
+41 77 410 95 94
Roberta Alberico
Admin & production
roberta@schlagprod.ch
+41 76 203 02 97
Association Praxis
Av. Recordon 42
1004 Lausanne
Bastien Hippocrate and Eléonore Heiniger, with whom she created self-produced pieces, shared in small venues and alternative scenes. The goals of this new structure are to manage the creation and distribution of her first choreographic pieces, as well as to develop new forms of production and artistic research that can be used by other artists.
Since the founding of PRAXIS, Claire Dessimoz has created five stage pieces, four performances, a "mediation-show" with allophone teenagers and a participatory installation for horizontal knowledge sharing. In 2020, she launched a reflection and action group to fight against abuse in the performing arts (Arts_sainement, Lausanne/Geneva) and set up, with Louis Bonard and Clara Delorme,
residency for multi-disciplinary artistic research in 2021 (Lieu Commun, Lausanne).
In 2022, she will work in parallel to the creation of FESTIVAL, a piece co-written with Clara Delorme and Louis Bonard, on a scenic research around the de(con)struction of the beauty capital, and on two pieces, sound and scenic, evoking fantasies of new law articles for the future.
spectacle danse. Arsenic Lausanne, mars 2021.
autour de l’ouvrage « Symétrie » de Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. Co-création avec Louis Bonard. Parc Mon Repos. Et Maintenant et SAS Lausanne, juillet-août 2020.
mise en scène du texte "Exploration du Flux" de Marina Skalova. Actoral – festival international des arts et des écritures contemporaines. Marseille, octobre 2019.
spectacle danse. Arsenic Lausanne, mai 2019.
installation. Mise en place d’un lieu pour le partage de connaissances et compétences. Tunnel Tunnel Lausanne, six semaines automne 2018.
performance. WallRiss Fribourg, 2018.
« spectacle-médiation » pour deux classes d’accueil lausannoises. Arsenic Lausanne et Fête de la danse, mai 2018.
spectacle transdisciplinaire, entre danse théâtre et documentaire. Arsenic Lausanne, janvier 2018, Théâtre Benno Besson février 2019, Emergentia-ADC avril 2019.
spectacle danse-documentaire. Théâtre de l’Usine Genève, décembre 2016. Théâtre Sévelin 36, mars 2017. Théâtre Benno Besson, février 2019. TanzInWinterthur, novembre 2019.
performances pour une personne à la fois. Urgent Paradise+St-Martin, 2015. Fête du slip, 2018. 30 ans de l’Usine, 2020.
installation performative avec Nicolas Raufaste, TACTACTAC St-Martin Lausanne 2015. Stammstudio, Porrentruy 2016.
Artisitic Director
Dramaturgy, Administration, Production
Human ressources & Accounting
COLLABORATORS 2015-2023
Dramaturg & Prod/Admin manager, from 2022 until now
Artistic collaborator 2021 (current currents)
Costume designer 2018 (Invitation)
Administrator 2017-2021
Dancer/performer 2018 (Invitation)
Dancer/performer 2018 (Invitation)
Costume designer 2019 (traverser tout entier) & dancer/performer 2020 - 2021 (current currents)
Music collaborator 2018 - 2021 (Invitation, traverser tout entier, current currents)
Dancer/performer 2018 - 2021 (Invitation, travers tout entier, current currents), Artistic collaborator 2023 (Grand Miroir)
Administrator 2021-2022
Costume designer 2016 (du bist was du holst)
Dancer/performer 2020-2021 (current currents)
Dramaturgy 2016 (du bist was du holst)
Dancer/performer 2018 (Invitation)
Dancer/performer 2020-2021 (current currents)
Light designer, scenography 2016-2021 (du bist was du holst, Invitation, travserser tout entier, current currents)
Dancer/performer 2020-2022 (current currents + research), Artistic collaborator 2023 (Grand Miroir)
Dramaturgy coach 2016-2021 (du bist as du holst, Invitation, travserser out entier, current currents)
Music 2016 (du bist was du holst)
Co-writing, artistic collaboration 2018 (Invitation)
Human ressources, accounting from 2021
Costume designer 2021 (current currents)
Administrator 2016-2017
Music collaboration 2019-2021 (cross all, current currents)
Claire Dessimoz (b.1988) is committed to a practice of “the small and subtle”.
She works with bodies and what they communicate – through their presence on stage or through their words, which she captures and restitutes with precision.
Her work deals with community and social issues: How can we live alongside each other and leave room for diversity, mistakes and disagreements? She invites heterogeneous thoughts into dialogue while resisting the temptation for any form of consensus.
Never dogmatic, she offers intricate pieces that are often joyful and shake up preconceptions and certitudes. Above all, her work aims to show things in the full range of their complexity while actively striving against oversimplification.
Her major works include current currents (2021), traverser tout entire (2019), invitation (2018) and du bist was du holst (2016).
She is currently preparing a double piece FESTIVAL (for adults) and RIMBAMBELLE (for young audiences) for 2023, in collaboration with Clara Delorme and Louis Bonard.
She was artist in residence at the Arsenic - Centre for contemporary performing arts in Lausanne (2017-2020) and benefitted from the program YAA ! – Young Associated Artist, an initiative of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Foundation for Culture. She is currently a recipient of structural subsidies from the Canton of Vaud (2021-2024). She lives and works in Lausanne.
As a child, Claire Dessimoz moved between Yverdon, where she went to school, and Lausanne, Geneva, Bienne and Macolin as a member of the rhythmic gymnastics junior national team.
After her studies in architecture (EPFL) and dance (LABAN), she worked as a dancer/performer, choreographer and assistant and set up a permanent working space in which to conduct on-going collective choreographic research.
Starting in 2004 she developed UNE PERSONNE, a series of performances she proposed through intimate forms that mixed text, sound and movement. This included WEGESUM GLÜCK, a sound installation with the visual artist Nicolas Raufaste and ET L’AVALANCHE, based on auto-generation and systematic composition with Bastien Hippocrate and Éléonore Heiniger.
During the 16-17 season, she created her own structure, based in Lausanne, and presented DU BIST WAS DU HOLST at the Théâtre de l’Usine in Geneva and during the Printemps de Sévelin in Lausanne. It is a solo piece involving archives, the body’s memory, mimicry and social positioning. It was during this time that her work with association/dissociation between movement and speech began. Her subsequent piece, INVITATION, would continue this research, treating this time questions of democracy and autonomy.
From 2019 to 2020, she developed a cycle of two pieces for the stage that resulted from research into the communicative potential of bodies in movement: the first piece, a duo lasting about three hours, about abstract evocations (TRAVERSER TOUT ENTIER); and the second, a group piece that examines questions of identity and current social issues (CURRENT CURRENTS).
Within the domain of contemporary art, she presented the performance POURQUOI L’HOMME FAIT-IL QUELQUE CHOSE PLUTÔT QUE RIEN at WallRiss in Fribourg, in June 2018. She also put in place UN LIEU at the Tunnel in Lausanne during the autumn of 2018, which consisted of organising, running and promoting an ephemeral space dedicated to the exchange of skills and knowledge. Upon the invitation of d’Urgent Paradise, she is preparing a publication in collaboration with artist Louis Schild for 2022.
Parallel to her artistic work, she regularly gives movement research and contemporary dance workshops.
In 2018 she worked with two high school classes for immigrant students at the end of their studies at the Collège de l’Elysée, creating the piece IN FIERI for the Fête de la Danse in Lausanne. During the 2019-2020 school year she held workshops at the OSEO-Vevey for young people in the INIZIO program.
Festival GOGOGO, Grütli-Genève
Dessimoz/Delorme/Bonard
ADC-Genève
TBB Yverdon
Tanzhaus Zürich X Zürich tanzt
Phönix Theater, Steckborn
Temple Allemand Chaux-de-Fonds X ADN-Neuchâtel
Dessimoz/Delorme/Bonard
Festival de la Cité, Lausanne
Dessimoz/Delorme/Bonard
Première à la Grange - Lausanne
Dessimoz/Delorme/Bonard
Sortie de résidence Pro Helvetia Venice
Palazzo Trevisan, Venise IT
Théâtre Sévelin 36 - Lausanne
Dampfzentrale - Berne
Claire Dessimoz+Louis Bonard, Semaine des Arts de la Scène Lausanne
Claire Dessimoz+Louis Bonard, Festival Et Maintenant Lausanne
étape de travail, Arsenic Lausanne
Claire Dessimoz/Gwenaël Grossfeld, Backslash Festival Gessnerallee Zürich
mise en espace du texte de Marina Skalova, Objet des Mots, Actoral Marseille
30 ans de l’Usine, Théâtre de l’Usine Genève
Première, Arsenic Lausanne
mené avec Marcel Schwald, IT'S THE RREAL THING! – Dokumentartheatertage
Débat autour de la gentrification Urbaine
exposition collective, MY PARENTS GOT DIVORCED ON A CHRISTMAS NIGHT, Le Bourg feat Life After God L.A.G Lausanne
installation - mise en place d'un lieu pour le partage de connaissances et compétences, Tunnel Tunnel Lausanne
projet de médiation avec les classes d’accueil du collège de l’Elysée, Arsenic Lausanne
Ano
performances collectives, Labo 6x15’ : le glitch, Foyer - Grange de Dorigny Lausanne
POSTE DE RESTITUTION
Claire Dessimoz/Bruno Robyr, installation, Les FAC Fours-à-Chaux St-Ursanne
POUR UNE PERSONNE
performance, Fête du Slip, Galerie Forma Lausanne
DU BIST WAS DU HOLST
Printemps de Sévelin, Sévelin 36 Lausanne
ACAB
performance/work-in-progress, DAS MUTTER, St Martin Lausanne
DU BIST WAS DU HOLST
DU BIST WAS DU HOLST
showing/work-in-progress, Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne
16+
Claire Dess & Rawfast, performances vernissage °2, EMOI MAGAZINE, Château d'Yverdon
POUR UNE PERSONNE
performance, DAF Deviant Art Festival Genève
WEGE ZUM GLÜCK
Claire Dess & Rawfast + Lara Damaso, Stammstudio Porrentruy
DU BIST WAS DU HOLST
15' version, Les Quarts d'heure, Printemps de Sévelin, Sévelin 36 Lausanne
WEGE ZUM GLÜCK
Claire Dess & Rawfast + Emma Souharce, Journées Tactactac, St-Martin 18 Lausanne
ET L'AVALANCHE
Claire Dessimoz / Bastien Hippocrate / Eléonore Heiniger, InciDanse, Nouveau Monde Fribourg
POUR UNE PERSONNE
POUR UNE PERSONNE
LeTandem, St-Martin 18 / Urgent Paradise Lausanne
LÂCHE-MOI OU JE TOMBE
Claire Dessimoz/Bastien Hippocrate, SAS Delémont
D'APRÈS UNE HISTOIRE VRAIE
Claire Dessimoz/Guillaume Guilherme, Exhibition opening, Villa Dutoit Genève
SERIES - LA FACE CACHEE DE LA BAIE VITRÉE
Tanzfest + Les Amplitudes, Aula de l'Ester La Chaux-de-Fonds
PIECES SONORES EN CORPS
commande, Tanzfest + Les Amplitudes, Centre de culture ABC La Chaux-de-Fonds
ET L'AVALANCHE
Claire Dessimoz / Bastien Hippocrate / Eléonore Heiniger, Deviant Art Festival Genève
DU BIST WAS DU HOLST – ARCHIV
version courte pour appartement, Hors-Lits Vevey
THE ISLAND
La Saburre, Oriental Vevey
LÂCHE-MOI OU JE TOMBE
Claire Dessimoz / Bastien Hippocrate, Contexte Silo Renens
LÂCHE-MOI OU JE TOMBE
Claire Dessimoz / Bastien Hippocrate, Oriental Vevey
LÂCHE-MOI OU JE TOMBE
Claire Dessimoz / Bastien Hippocrate, Spontaneous Combustion Festival, London
LÂCHE-MOI OU JE TOMBE
Claire Dessimoz / Bastien Hippocrate, Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds
LÂCHE-MOI OU JE TOMBE
Claire Dessimoz / Bastien Hippocrate, Théâtre de la Tournelle Orbe
THE ISLAND
La Saburre, Théâtre 2.21 Lausanne
SALLE DES FÊTES/SALLE DES FÊTES
Claire Dessimoz/Eléonore Heiniger, L'OV CAN Neuchâtel
CETTE TRAGÉDIE CONTEMPORAINE
10 MIN ET DES POUSSIÈRES
Claire Dess/Eléonore Heiniger, Rodynam Orbe
FLOCK
Le Recueil des Miracles
Un projet de Louis Schild. Chorégraphie: Claire Dessimoz
Vidy Lausanne
L'externat et le foyer
Clara Delorme, Printemps de Sévelin 24
(interprète)
Le Recueil des Miracles
Un projet de Louis Schild. Chorégraphie: Claire Dessimoz
Vidy Lausanne
L’Apocalypse - Intégrale (ép.1-4)
Louis Bonard, Théâtre St-Gervais - Genève
(collaboration artistique)
L’Apocalypse - épisode 4 : Promesses.
Louis Bonard, Arsenic Lausanne
(collaboration artistique)
Lumen
Jasmine Morand, Théâtre de la Ville Paris
(assistante en chorégraphie)
Lumen
Jasmine Morand, Théâtre Paul Eluard - Bezons - France
(assistante en chorégraphie)
L’Apocalypse - épisode 3 : L’Adversaire
Louis Bonard, Arsenic Lausanne
(collaboration artistique)
L’Apocalypse - épisode 2 : Les Adieux
L’Apocalypse - épisode 1 : Le début de la fin
Prototype Status - Jasmine Morand, Manège - Scène nationale Reims
Prototype Status - Jasmine Morand, Printemps de Sévelin, Sévelin 36 Lausanne
Prototype Status - Jasmine Morand, Printemps de Sévelin, Swiss Dance Days Genève
Prototype Status - Jasmine Morand, Théâtre Le Reflet - Festival Images Vevey
DE L'AMOUR, DIONYS MASCOLO
performance, lecture. Bilblioteq Mdulair ✕ Claire @RADIO LUFF
OFF-LUFF St Martin Lausanne. 19.10.2016
Invitée par Biblioteq Mdulair.
LOST THREADS
Sarah Waelchli, L'abri Genève
FURNITURE SKIN
Manon Krüttli, LUFF Lausanne
LEGACY
Nadia Beugré, La Bâtie Genève
ON BASS
VelvetBlues, Fête de la musique, Scène ADC Genève
Résidence artistique avec Manolis Tsipos, Arc Romainmôtier
Nicole Seiler, GIPCA Live Art Festival, Cape Town, SA
BODIES IN URBAN SPACES
Willi Dorner, Le Mouvement Bienne
YOU MET HAVE I
Barbara Greco, DanceOUT Festival Roma IT
dirigé par Simone Aughterlony, Gessnerallee Zürich