Emilie Gallier (Jamillah Sungkar, drawings)

Emilie Gallier (France, 1984) is a choreographer and

researcher. Working from people’s implicatedness

with each other’s secret worlds, with the worlds of

dreams and of imagination, is at the heart of her

choreographer’s practice. For over a decade she has

been in search for invisible movements by using

the writing and the reading of movement as tools.

She wrote scores for the audience to read and

experimented with the sharing of individual

expertise in the real time of performance (Twists

in the Body of the Big Spectator, 2013-15). She

designed a book as a performance and observed the

place of expectation in people’s reading (sync 2012).

Today, her choreographic practice focuses on

designing performance landscapes where audience,

performers and objects evolve; they contemplate,

and they read (often in the literal sense). She uses

dance in its written and performed forms as her

main medium that then expands into collaborative

fields, for instance: graphic design and magic.

This practice translates into performance works,

scores, choreographic books, hybrid articles, lecture

performances, and research papers.

www.post-cie.com

Published books by the same author:

sync, 2012, Wintertuin, PØST Cie Emilie Gallier

Twists in the body of the big spectator, 2014, PØST

Cie Emilie Gallier Overall research Reading in Performance, Lire

en Spectacle undertaken by Emilie Gallier

Performance Papier multiforme, Papier comestible

created with Tilman Andris and Jamillah Sungkar

from 2014 to 2017, and continued with Camille

Gerbeau, Nina Boas and Katinka Marac since 2018.

Performed by

Camille Gerbeau and Nina Boas

Overall concept and choreography

Emilie Gallier

Composition of the magic performance

Tilman Andris and Emilie Gallier

Magic and paper object illusions

Tilman Andris

Book design and drawings by

Jamillah Sungkar

Dramaturgy

Nicola Unger

Light and technical support

Katinka Marac

Production

PØST Cie Emilie Gallier

Co-production

Centre for Dance Research Coventry University,

THIRD (DAS Research Amsterdam), Festival

Regards dansants (Cherbourg)

Supported by

Perdu (Amsterdam), Weisslich (London),

Performance and Philosophy (Ljubjana edition),

CLOUD (The Hague)