COLLABORATORS

 

Brice Catherin
Musician

It was at the age of 36, after having composed nearly 80 pieces, been on stage as a performer and improviser, and while working on his doctorate in composition, that Brice Catherin realized that the important thing, it is less music than love. He then decided to devote himself entirely to it and produced, in the form of collaborations with his good friends, intermedia objects (especially with the Noisebringers), performances (with Ioannis Mandafounis), poetry (with Cléa Chopard), visual things (with Mariabrice Sapphocatherin), but also stained glass (with Cynthia Udriot), articles (for The Mass) and a jazz album (with Sam Eastmond), because he is still a cellist with bizarre sounds if we ask him nicely.

 

Erin O’Reilley
Dancer

Born in California and having followed dance training in several cities in the United States, Erin arrived in Switzerland to join the Ballet Junior de Genève in 2012. As a performer she worked with Laura Tanner, Marine Besnard, Cie WAVE , Woman's Move, Cie Beaver Dam in Switzerland, as well as Nicole Von Arx (USA), Yotam Peled (DE), Brokentalkers Theater Company (IR) and James Finnemore (UK).

In 2015, she co-founded Junebug Company, with Rosanne Briens and Sophie Ammann. They collaborate in their creations Harmony in Blues, Two Blue, Carte Blanche, and WICCA (presented at the Théâtre de la Parfumerie in Geneva).

All these projects have taken her on tours and festivals in several countries, such as France, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Serbia, South Korea, and Venezuela.


 

 

 

Jean Baptiste Bucau
Photographer

Jean Baptiste first trained in photography in Bordeaux in 1986, then decided to broaden up his spectrum of knowledge by training as a Video technician in Toulouse.
These different cards allowed him to touch several artistic fields.
Between 1990 and 1997, Jean Baptiste was a sound / light assistant at Sud Ouest Son in Bordeaux. Shortly after, he joined the Avant Scène in Toulouse as a lighting technician.
Very quickly, he understood his passion for live shows photography. He is hired by various dance and theater companies such as the Paul les oiseaux company, the Entresol company, or the Fabre Senou company. He also takes part in various festivals.

Jean Baptiste also finds a political commitment and decides to photograph for various humanist causes.


 
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Jonas Bülher
Slammer

Jonas is an active rap artist in Geneva since 1990, first with the band LE DUO. In 2006 he releases his first solo album, Bagages, partly recorded in West Africa with numerous musicians. About ten years later, he comes back with Oxymore, his new album with more mature, bittersweet writings between harsh realities and deep tenderness, recorded with jazzmen. With a sharp tongue, he enjoys revealing the paradoxes of reality, as with Petit Carré where the sweetness of chocolate is actually linked to child slavery, in Almeria with Pierre Lautomne, or in Du Sang sur les Mains for the 2009 voting campaign aimed at stopping the export of war material.

Currently, Jonas works with an ensemble of four baroque bassoons, a cello and drums, Jonas & Le Chant des Roseaux. 

His poetic deep writings made him a guest several times in Slam festivals. 


Malou L’Accroqueuse des mots
Slammer

Malou L'Accroqueuse des Mots has been playing orally with verb and thought-concepts on a slam scene for 15 years. She invites us momentarily into her cerebral mechanisms, for an original and generous poetic “one on stage”. Malou takes great pleasure in transmitting the poetry of writing and speaking to people of all ages and backgrounds. She leads numerous introductory poetic writing and Slam Poetry workshops as well as private elocution and public speaking lessons.

 
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Oscar Sanchez
Dancer, musician

From an early age, Oscar trained in dance and tap dance at the Conservatoire Populaire de Genève. At the same time, he learned music theory and played the fife and the saxophone.In 2011 he joined the Ballet Junior de Genève and danced pieces by internationally renowned choreographers.
Multi-talented, Oscar has since navigated between music and dance.

He works in particular with various artists such as Olivier Dubois and Yan Duyvendak on the Sound of Music project, Cisco Aznar for the Flux Laboratory or even for the company Woman's Move on various projects across Switzerland.
He also joins the Brazilian music group Parada tropical with which he has been performing in Geneva since 2015.
His various projects take him on tours and festivals between Switzerland, France, Italy and Belgium.

 
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POL
Sound designer

Pol is an electronic music composer from Geneva situated between the heady pounding of an electro dance floor and  the dark scenes of a post-industrial civilization. He infiltrates his music into our world using various strategies.
For contemporary dance, he has worked with young choreographers such as Marthe Krummenacher or Ioannis Mandafounis and designed the piece PLAY inspired by video games. In 2016 he created the piece AXIS MUNDI with Louis Clément da Costa. 
For the cinema, we find his creations in the film Zombi Arty by Bruce LaBruce and Quand J’étais Chanteur with Gérard Depardieu. 
He is the author of various sound installations such as Le jardin Zen Interactif Tactile, L’autoradio Orchestra, Le Potager Sonore and 256 ringtones for a college. 
Wether alone or in collaborations, today POL continues his sound investigations with Goodby Ivan in AEROFLOT, or even Core with Da Sax Among others…




 

Rafael Smadja
Dancer, choreographer

Rafael trained in hip-hop dance with Mr Wiggles, Ken Swift, Mamson, Popin Pete, Sébastien Boucher…. He founded his company in 2010. He created Fleuve in 2011. In 2013, he began the first choreographic and musical research laboratories for his second creation, the duo Presk which ended with the piece Domino in 2014. The same year he created the solo Cactus. In 2015, Rafaël performed for the Compagnie du Théâtre Bascule in the show Zoom Dada, for the Compagnie BurnOut l Jann Gallois in an opera mixing professionals and amateurs and for the Compagnie Yann Marussich in the show Les aviateurs.
Rafael's body language comes from hip-hop technique and is refined and detached from his performative stereotype, his dance takes a position in front of the subject.

 
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Samuel Schmidiger
Musician

Samuel is trained as a classical cellist and learned guitar and bass on his own. These last few years,  Samuel Schmidiger has played mainly as a bass player with The Jackets, a Bernese garage punk band that has been touring Europe since 2008.

As a composer and sound performer, he is currently working with the company Bleu en Haut, Bleu en Bas in Geneva. Samuel Schmidiger has a particular interest in exploring and developing the original energy and power of blues and rock, translating them into live performances in order to create an intense and shared experience between performer and audience. In terms of artistic practice, he likes to explore forms of interdisciplinary collaboration.