Camille Mutel

Camille Mutel is a dancer and choreographer. Initially trained in Hervé Diasnas’s practice of dance movement, her experience of a butoh dance performance at the age of 20 would definitively transform her approach to movement and the body. Her creations, which have been performed in Japan and Europe, examine the relationship with the self and with others.

Mutel’s work lies at the intersection between Japanese culture and the culture of France and Europe. Her reflections on the body and dance, inspired by her experience of butoh, continue to take root and grow within this discipline. Bridges between the two cultures emerge almost organically. In addition to butoh, the tea ceremony is another source of inspiration and reflection. Every movement, every glance, every intent has a precise, coded meaning. Gestures carve out a shared moment in time and space, the quality and nature of the relationship being an integral part of each one, beyond any narrative or agenda. Gestures have no intent other than themselves, no meaning other than in the context of the relationship in which they exist. They are part of the present. They are the present.