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After graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), Cédric Andrieux danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for 10 years. Following this American experience, he joined the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon in 2007, where he performed a varied repertoire. His most notable ballet roles are Albrecht in Gisèle by Mats Ek, Newark by Trisha Brown, and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet by Angelin Preljocaj. In 2009, choreographer Jérôme Bel created and named the solo work Cédric Andrieux especially for him. He has also danced for choreographers Mathilde Monnier and Daniel Linehan and will collaborate with director Christophe Honoré. Furthermore, he will work with Jérôme Bel and Mathilde Monnier on several pieces at the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon and the Ballet de Lorraine.

Cheryl Therrien  has been teaching contemporary dance at the CNSMDP since 2007.

She was born in the United States and trained at SUNY at Purchase in New York State. She worked with various NYC-based choreographers before joining the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1993. During her decade with the company, she danced more than 50 works by the American choreographer. She is certified to teach the Cunningham technique, as well as to renew and perform works from the repertoire.

She teaches masterclasses and workshops across the United States and Europe at such institutions as New York University, Stanford University in California, the Ballet Preljocaj in Aix-en-Provence, the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, the Compagnie DCA-Philippe Decouflé and The Place in London.

There is a notable theme in Johanna Faye’s creative expression, and that is finding common ground through movement. Through non-verbal language, the choreographer begins a conversation that finds its source in her varied inspirations, where her relationship with the floor springs from her b-girl practice, combined with the verticality and sensitivity she acquired through contemporary dance. Alongside Saïdo Lehlouh in a duo in Iskio, as a trio in Afastado Em and in a septet for Fact, Ms Faye explores a world in which the environment, both human and material, leads moving beings to trace new interactive contours. The two dancers created Earthbound together in 2021, choreography that celebrates the diversity of a rebellious underground hip-hop scene, challenging onstage performance conventions.

Saïdo Lehlouh is a co-founding member of the FAIR-E Collective and has been Co-Director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne since January 2019.

By taming the floor through touch, this artist nicknamed “Darwin” continuously builds a corporal vocabulary responsive to the needs of the moment. With his 2019 composition, Apaches, Mr Lehlouh makes use of the authenticity afforded by improvisation in a versatile stage piece that perpetually adapts to the context of each performance. Whether in a public space or on stage, Apaches arranges bodies and sets them to rhythm in a transitional space where the circulating energies and sincere intentionality are the message. With his partner Johanna Faye, Mr Lehlouh explores in Iskio (2015), and later in Fact (2017), the possibilities of speaking out in a choreographic dialogue. Together, Mr Lehlouh and Ms Faye created Earthbound in 2021, a celebration through dance of the diversity of the rebellious underground hip-hop scene, challenging onstage performance conventions.