This website gathers the work on dancing which Alice Chauchat has been pursuing since 2014. This work is grounded in the practice, development and articulation of SCORES for improvised movement that is oriented by one's attention to someone (something) else than oneself and the relation in-between.
It takes place in dance studios, in theatres, in galleries, in the streets - with colleagues, friends, students, passionate hobby dancers and audiences. Depending on the context, a score can act as an artwork, as a pedagogical tool or as a social dance.

Some scores are activated in public FORMS such as performances, installations or participatory projects. One score can appear across several forms, identical or in changing variations.

Some of the scores are borrowed from peer artists (colleagues, students), others are created. Most of the time a score appears in response to or in prolongation of already existing practices. All of them keep being reformulated as they are told and practiced, over and over again, in an ongoing dialogue between finding the words that will set conditions for an activity and hearing words that tell the experience of engaging in the activity.

The discourse around the work is thus mostly oral, but every now and then a written TEXT (or a lecture) is published to give closer attention to the one or other aspect of the whole.

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Alice Chauchat (F) lives in Berlin since 2001 and works as a choreographer, dancer, assistant, teacher, mentor, etc. Collaboration has been her recurring reality, making the negotiation of distance, alterity or de-centering a growing concern in her work.

Alice studied classical and contemporary dance at the regional (C.N.R.) and national (C.N.S.M.) conservatories in Lyon, as well as at P.A.R.T.S., Brussels. From 1998 to 2001, she worked with Thomas Plischke and Martin Nachbar within the B.D.C. collective. Since 2001, Alice has pursued her career as an independent choreographer, while continuing punctual collaborations, with Jennifer Lacey, Sabine Zahn, Anne Juren, Alix Eynaudi or Frédéric Gies among others. As a performer she worked with Xavier Le Roy, Jennifer Lacey, Sabine Zahn, Alix Eynaudi, Tino Sehgal, Juan Dominguez a.o.

Her interest in possible modes of sharing, whether of a situation, of artistic responsibility within collaborations, or of means of production and discursive tools led her to participate in the setting up of the open collective Praticable, together with Isabelle Schad, Odile Seitz, Frédéric Gies, Frédéric de Carlo (2005-09), to develop the internet-based active archive project everybodys toolbox (2005-2013 ), to accept the presidency of the artist-run PerformingArtsForum in Saint-Erme, France (2006-14), to facilitate the Teachback program for dance and pedagogy research with Jennifer Lacey at the ImpulsTanz festival in Vienna (2013-16) or conceptualise with Ellen Söderhult and Eleanor Bauer the research and exchange project Nobody's Business (2015-18).

Expanding on her experiences with modes of acting and being together, Alice has been developing Togethering since 2014: a choreographic research on the ethics of intimacy across radical difference. She uses dance to activate correlated notions such as not knowing, tending towards or approximating, to investigate the qualities of engagement they generate. This ongoing research produces a collection of scores, choreographic concepts and performances. It takes place in dance studios, on stage, in urban space and in the form of texts. The research has been hosted by Amsterdam Theaterschool while Alice was completing her MA in choregraphy and when she was a fellow in THIRD.

Alice also teaches regularly at HZT Berlin, DAS Choreography Amsterdam, DDSKS Copenhagen, Stockholm University of the Arts, ImPulsTanz Vienna and punctually in a number of contexts around Europe and North America.

Institutional experiences include directing Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, an artistic research center in the suburbs of Paris (2010-12) together with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Grégory Castéra or working as a guest professor at HZT Berlin (2017-2020) and JLU Giessen (2018).