Giselle Vienne

Giselle Vienne, the choreographer and director of Franco-Austrian descent, was born in 1976. Having studied Philosophy and Music, she attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières.

She founded her company in 1999, and has created 14 productions since then. She frequently collaborates with the author Dennis Cooper, the musicians Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley, the lighting designer Patrick Riou and the actor Jonathan Capdevielle on projects that have gone on to become overnight successes on the European stage: works like “Jerk” (2008), “LAST SPRING: A Prequel” (2011), “Showroomdummies #3” (a new version of the work she created in 2001 with Etienne Bideau-Rey, which is now part of the repertoire of the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine), “The Pyre” (2013) and “The Ventriloquists Convention” (2015) in collaboration with the Puppentheater Halle.

Her works conjure up a universe of astonishingly beautiful, unfamiliar, strange and disconcerting images which serve as a microscope that captures with amazing clarity the collective emotions, fantasies and the forces that can push human behaviour in one direction or another.