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Lara  Fournier

Lara 
Fournier
174 cm

Graduate from Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance, I am a professional dancer & choreographer, now working between Europe, the UK and my Swiss home country.

Born in Switzerland, I have started to develop my passion for dance at an early age. Established in London between 2016 & 2021, I have completed my First Class Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours at the Rambert Ballet and Contemporary Dance School, where I had the opportunity to work with a diversity of choreographers, amongst Kim Brandstrup and Julie Cunningham.
Involved in Christopher Thomas’ creations since 2018, I had the pleasure to perform ‘Blood Thicker Than Water’ for the Resolution Dance Festival 2019 at The Place and ‘To The Ocean Floor’, as part of the Young Associates Programme, for Christopher’s main stage production at Sadler’s Wells the same year. In October 2019, I took part to the ArtsCross Project in Beijing, in collaboration with the University of Middlesex, the Beijing Dance Academy and the University of Taipei, where I danced for choreographers Amir Kolben and Joy Alpuerto Ritter. Additionnally, I have been working with the Azimuth Arts & Dance Ensemble and Lee Jung in Creation team.

Genuinely attracted by choreographic experimentations, I had the opportunity to initiate the very beginnings of a movement research, based on the vulnerability of Human Interaction(s) with a first work ‘Human Interaction’ (2018) performed as part of the Design for Dance Festival at Central Saint Martins Theatre, a second piece, ‘No Speech for Emotions’ (2019), at the **Lilian Baylis **and Anya Linden Theatres. I choreographed and performed ‘Us, You, Me, Living ?’ (2020) at The Place Resolution Dance Festival. I have developped the artistic repertoire of the **Lacrima Asteria Dance Company **based in Switzerland, with a first work 'Wordless Speech on Skin, Bones & Heart' (2022), at the Florence Dance Festival – Twilight in the round, as well as a second creation, 'For the Heart I Once Had' (2023), performed at the Fête de la Danse – Neuchâtel, in Switzerland.

My professional experience is an enriched combination of dance performances, choreographic opportunities, and artistic development through intensives and residencies worldwide. Including, but not limited to: Shawbrook Creative Residencies, Elio Gervasi Workshop Residency, Iraqi Bodies Creative Lab, Open Bodies Choreographic programme, R&D for Christopher Thomas, Kerry Nicholls’ Mind the Gap, TAW Hofesh Shechter, Jane Castree Creative collaboration session and intensives by Wayne McGregor, P.A.R.T.S, S.E.A.D, & Trinity Laban.

I have recently completed a BA in Philosophy, Psychology-Education Sciences & History of Art, at the University of Neuchâtel, in Switzerland. I have also completed an Certified RYS Yoga Teacher Training using this practice in my physical and mental daily training. My constant curiosity for reflective exploration drives my work towards a cognitive alliance of words and movements through different media such as collages, photography, poetry and montages. Highly interested in any art forms, I have collaborated with a variety of local and worldwide artists and am currently looking for further cathartic experimentations.

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