Catherine Contour

Artist

Born in Paris, lives near Grenoble, works where she meets people by chance. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des arts-décoratifs de Paris in scenography, she trained in contemporary dance in the profusion of the 80s in Paris and New York.
Since dance, its main anchor, she has not stopped exploring the body, the danced gesture in its poetic and political dimensions, the devices of connection, weaving subtle links with places and environments. In 2008, she founded Maison Contour, an artisanal and made-to-measure artistic brand of located pieces. His work has a strong research and transmission dimension in close dialogue with other fields and cultures, including that of Japan. Since 2002, she is passionate about the artistic and educational possibilities of the hypnotic technique. She designs the hypnotic tool for choreographic creation and practice Danser brut in collaboration with a team of artists and teacher-researchers within the Bains laboratory. From dance to gardens, from the art of napping to tea ceremony, from photography to ceramics, from film to hypnosis, she transforms these experiences into objects or "rituals" offering a shift towards fantasy and imagination. His creations in various formats offer modes of habitation where choreographic figures can be deployed and ways of being together that intensify the presence in the world.