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Julia Cima & Jeanne Vicerial

Dance / performance
Sep. 
 Dec. 2024

Presentation

Jeanne Vicerial’s interest in clothes design began when she was a teenager. Having obtained a Master’s in clothes design from École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2015, she joined the SACRe (Science, Arts, Creation, Research) doctoral programme, presenting her thesis in 2019. She took her research further through a collaboration with the mechatronics department at MINES ParisTech to develop a patented robotised process for zero-waste production of made-to-measure clothes. At the same time, she set up her Clinique Vestimentaire research and creation studio and embarked on an artistic practice. Since 2021 Jeanne Vicerial has been represented by Galerie Templon (Paris, Brussels, New York).

 

Julia Cima is a 1995 graduate of Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris. Between 1996 and 2007 she interpreted the choreographies of Boris Charmatz, as well as Odile Duboc, Myriam Gourfink, Benoit Lachambre, Mathilde Monnier and Alain Michard. For six years she toured her Visitations and Danse Hors-cadre solo programmes in France and internationally. After training in fasciatherapy, she practiced for five years, returning to dance in 2022 for Athanor, a collaboration with Jeanne Vicerial, supported by the Fondation Martell in Cognac, France.


Project

TrÂme (Weft)

Jeanne Vicerial and Julia Cima’s first collaboration was part of The End is in the Beginning and Yet You Go On at Fondation Martell in 2022. Their residency at Villa Kujoyama gives them time to immerse themselves in an exploration in symbiosis with a place and its users.

Through a form of simplicity that is alert to beauty, we can reach a part of us that is closer to the soul. Focused on slow movements (in reference to the artisan’s precision), on smells which connect directly to the part of the brain that controls emotion and memory, on different scales relating to presences in space, and on sound perceptions of actions in progress, their two bodies model space into a “theatre” for metamorphosis.