Gisèle Vienne (F)

was born in 1976, she is Franco-Austrian and now lives and works in Grenoble and Paris. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette from 1996 to 1999. She’s a choreographer/director, performer and visual artist.
In 1999 Etienne Bideau-Rey and Gisèle Vienne founded the not-for-profit dance company De l’Autre Côté du Miroir (DACM), which has always aimed to contribute to the exchange between dance, puppeteering, theatre and other artistic media. She choreographed and staged with Bideau-Rey “Splendid’s” by Jean Genet in 2000, “Showroomdummies” in 2001, “Stéréotypie” in 2003, and “Tranen Veinzen” in 2004.
Since 2003, she has choreographed and directed, in collaboration with the writer Dennis Cooper, “I Apologize” (2004), “Une belle enfant blonde” / “A young, beautiful blond girl” (2005), “Kindertotenlieder” (2007) and “Jerk”, a radioplay in the framework of the “atelier de création radiophonique” of France Culture (June 2007) and the play “Jerk” (2008),which was staged at steirischer herbst festival in 2008. Gisèle Vienne was awarded the Villa Kujoyama grant in 2007. Since 2005, she has been frequently exhibiting her photographs and installations (“La Force de l'Art” im Grand Palais in Paris, 2006, Centre Atlantique de la Photographie in Brest, 2007), "Stay with Art" in Osaka, 2007). With Etienne Bideau-Rey, she also wrote two publications, “Corps / Objet – Sur le rapport du corps au corps artificial”, published by the Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble.
In 2009, she created “Eternelle Idole” with an ice skater and an actor and the rewriting of “Showroomdummies” with Etienne Bideau-Rey. Vienne has been an actress in several of Patric Chiha’s film such as “Home” (2006) and “Domaine” (2009). In the latter she worked as a choreographer too. She also created and directed a dummy for Paul Otchakovsky Laurens’ film, “Sablé-sur-Sarthe” (2009). Her latest piece “This is how you will disappear” will be staged within this year’s steirischer herbst festival.

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