ABOUT
Maëva Berthelot is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher whose mode of working unfolds along the threshold between experimental, performative and collaborative approaches.
Born in Paris, of Guadeloupean and Greek origin, she obtained her MA in contemporary dance from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in 2003. However, it is abroad that she pursued her artistic career for 20 years.
As a performer, she has collaborated with artists and companies such as Ohad Naharin, Colette Sadler, Emanuel Gat, Ola Maciejewska, Oona Doherty, Sharon Eyal, Damien Jalet, Roberta Jean amongst others and spent six years as a senior member with Hofesh Shechter Company, contributing creatively as an original cast member in numerous pieces and as a teacher.
Drawing from improvisational and somatic practices, her research ongoingly investigates themes of consciousness, transformation, death and rebirth and finds its roots in a movement practice which explores the multiple layers of the body as well as the invisible systems and structures to which it belongs and with which it interacts.
She conceives the body as a receptacle of the echoes of individual and collective memory and sees the choreographic space as an opportunity to create places of resistance, empathy and emotional exchange.Maëva was born in L'Haÿ-les-roses, Paris in 1985 and lives between South London & Paris.