From the very beginning, Yvann Alexandre’s creative driving forces have been rooted in the human matter. All his 

From the very beginning, the driving forces behind Yvann Alexandre’s creations have been rooted in human matter. His processes begin with transmission, numerous experimentation and research laboratories, long and multiple phases of exploration, which lead to the final creation of a work. In the last few years, his method of composing on choreographic score with a personal notation has been profoundly modified in favour of a radical emancipation of his own codes and direct interaction with the performers. Finesse and boldness, organicity and spatial skill, rigour of purpose, tenacity and commitment to action, alone on stage together, these are just some of the profound markers of this atypical creator who has been working unceasingly for almost three decades.

Born in La Roche-Sur-Yon in 1976, Yvann Alexandre began his career as a lay friend and at the Conservatory of his hometown with Bernadette Gaillard, then at the La Rochelle Conservatory with Colette Milner, Christine Girard and Brigitte Asselineau. He pursued his career in Montpellier with Epsedanse (directed by Anne-Marie Porras) and at the same time attended the CCN de Montpellier, newly directed by Mathilde Monnier. At this time, his meeting with Christian Bourigault and other fundamental teachings brought to light the foundations of his creative work and his pedagogy. It is thus at the age of seventeen that he composed his first pieces and created his company in 1993 in Montpellier. He created his first work for the Hivernales d'Avignon and Montpellier Danse. In addition to his works, presented on numerous prestigious stages and festivals in France and abroad, he has also been a guest artist at the National Superior Conservatories of Paris and Lyon, Quebec City and Montreal, as well as at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Nancy and the Nordwest Tanzcompagnie in Germany. Over the course of these 25 creative seasons, he has established himself as the representative of an abstract, highly premeditated dance, very different from the performances and improvisations of those of his generation, with a particular dedication to the writing of movement.

Even today, his work still reflects on the very essence of dance, the notion of plasticity giving way to the energy of movement, and this, in keeping with the concept of the line, an element that has been present from the very beginning. In his work, movement and scenography are placed on the same level, like two subjects on par: plastics in total interaction with the body-matter. His highly precise gestures abound in detail and are articulated like a calligraphy of the intimate. In 2019, he took over as artistic director of the Théâtre Francine Vasse in Nantes with an innovative project based on transmission and culminating in a work of art: Les Laboratoires Vivants.